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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Cover image for 10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 8)

Alex Enson

Apr 19 '25

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 8)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

1 min read

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Apr 18 '25

Integrating MCP Servers

#ai #llm #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Apr 19 '25

How I Built Soplang — A Programming Language Inspired by Somali (And Why You Don’t Start From Scratch)

#programming #soplang #opensource #somalia

3 min read

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Alex Enson

Apr 8 '25

Mastering the 'mv' Command in Linux: Move, Organize, and Rename Like a Pro

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Open CDB

Mar 16 '25

Open CDB v0.1

#ai #chatgpt #frontend #opensource

1 min read

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Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 18 '25

Top 25 Linux Commands You’ll Use Every Day (with examples)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

Apr 18 '25

KitOps: Bringing DevOps Discipline to Machine Learning Artifacts

#programming #opensource #docker #machinelearning

3 min read

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Karan Verma for Docker

Apr 11 '25

From Zero to Local LLM: A Developer's Guide to Docker Model Runner

#docker #devops #opensource #genai

4 min read

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Apr 18 '25

Codex CLI – Adding Azure OpenAI to Codex by using… Codex!

#openai #azure #ai #opensource

3 min read

Zhang Wei

Apr 7 '25

Copyleft Licenses: Bridging Open Source with Commercial Sustainability

#copyleft #opensource #commercialsustainability

7 min read

Cover image for Backstage for the win!

Apr 18 '25

Backstage for the win!

#backstage #opensource #programming #javascript

9 min read

Cover image for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP): A New Era in AI Integration

Mar 15 '25

Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP): A New Era in AI Integration

#ai #agenticai #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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Apr 18 '25

Documentation That Builds Itself with Sphinx + Read the Docs

#python #opensource #tooling #automation

1 min read

Cover image for Soplang 2.0 Is Almost Here — A Somali-first Programming Language Nears Major Release

Apr 18 '25

Soplang 2.0 Is Almost Here — A Somali-first Programming Language Nears Major Release

#programming #soplang #opensource #somalia

3 min read

Cover image for Mkdotenv: the tool that makes .env manipulation a breeze

Dimitrios Desyllas

Apr 7 '25

Mkdotenv: the tool that makes .env manipulation a breeze

#go #programming #opensource

1 min read

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