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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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Alberto Cubeddu

Aug 5 '24

AI/LLMs (ChatGPT, Llama and more) at Your Fingertips, Anytime, Anywhere!

#ai #productivity #opensource #llm

1 min read

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Yuri for Supabase

Sep 3 '24

vec2pg: Migrate to pgvector from Pinecone and Qdrant

#webdev #database #programming #opensource

4 min read

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Jen Wike Huger for OpenProject

Sep 3 '24

20 reasons (and a tutorial!) to deploy OpenProject with Kubernetes via Helm

#kubernetes #opensource

4 min read

Lulu

Sep 3 '24

Comprehensive Guide to Installing, Configuring, and Testing SafeLine WAF

#cybersecurity #docker #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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Antonio for Litlyx

Sep 2 '24

Why compete against Google is not crazy

#discuss #opensource #analytics #javascript

3 min read

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Pasquale De Lucia

Sep 3 '24

BRUNO the new http client

#http #git #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Lulu

Sep 3 '24

My Experience with SafeLine Community Edition WAF

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #waf

2 min read

Lulu

Sep 3 '24

Enhance Your Cybersecurity with SafeLine: The Open-Source WAF You Can Trust

#webdev #cybersecurity #opensource #waf

2 min read

Lulu

Aug 23 '24

SafeLine's FAQ Part 4: Other Issues

#cybersecurity #webdev #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

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RD17🧑🏽‍💻

Sep 3 '24

How to Set Up Minio Object Storage on Linux with Systemd

#kubernetes #devops #linux #opensource

5 min read

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Sm0ke

Sep 3 '24

Generate and Deploy Django Starters | OpenSource Tool

#django #opensource #generator #appseed

1 min read

Rafael Herik de Carvalho

Sep 3 '24

In Light of Terraform Licensing Changes, OpenTofu Offers a Free, Open-Source Path

#terraform #opensource

2 min read

Lulu

Aug 23 '24

How SafeLine Leverages Nginx

#cybersecurity #webdev #opensource #waf

5 min read

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Sep 3 '24

Guide to Adding Plugins to Apache Answer

#opensource #plugins #tutorial

2 min read

Henrique Sagara

Sep 2 '24

Starting with Open Source Development

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #ai

1 min read

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