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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.

submission guidelines

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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Vivesh

Nov 7 '24

An In-Depth Look at Nginx: The Modern Web Server and Its Applications in Web and Application Backend Infrastructure

#nginx #devops #opensource #microservices

4 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Priyanshu Verma

Nov 6 '24

My journey of open-sourcing 2024

#hacktoberfest #devchallenge #opensource

5 min read

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Chirag Aggarwal

Nov 1 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Experience with Cal Buddy, Your Smart Calendar Assistant

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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Nabir14

Nov 2 '24

Cross-Compiling GCC in Linux

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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Oct 8 '24

Detailed Overview of Role-Based Access Control and Service Accounts

#devops #kubernetes #docker #opensource

7 min read

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Nov 2 '24

✨ Embracing Open Source: My Hacktoberfest 2024 Experience 🚀💻

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

云微

Oct 4 '24

Navigating the Innovation Landscape: Comparing Different Organizations

#opensource

7 min read

云微

Oct 4 '24

How can one person Making a Difference in innovation world

#opensource

6 min read

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Oct 3 '24

YTComment-IQ : A Streamlit app that does YouTube Comments Analysis with Visualizations

#beginners #opensource #machinelearning #datascience

1 min read

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Nov 5 '24

How I used an OpenSource LLM in Wordpress

#webdev #llm #wordpress #opensource

3 min read

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Eshan Roy (eshanized) for Snigdha OS

Dec 1 '24

🐧 Linux Command Cheat Sheet: Essential Commands with Examples

#linux #linuxcommands #devops #opensource

3 min read

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Nov 5 '24

Leverage IP Data for Dynamic User Access Management 🌐

#security #productivity #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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Paul

Nov 6 '24

Change the way you design. Learn Typography

#webdev #design #frontend #opensource

3 min read

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Nov 4 '24

My Hacktoberfest Journey: From Beginner to Confident Contributor

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Cleo Buenaventura

Oct 8 '24

Refactoring GENEREADME

#opensource #git #github #refactorit

3 min read

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