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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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Francesco Ciulla

Aug 20 '24

Building a Simple CLI in Rust

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

2 min read

Aug 2 '24

Quicklook: Discovering Logseq

#blog #quicklook #opensource #logseq

4 min read

Lulu

Aug 22 '24

Boost Your Website Security for Free with SafeLine WAF

#cybersecurity #webdev #sql #opensource

3 min read

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Aug 22 '24

My GSoC Experience : PEcAn Project

#google #opensource #programming #javascript

6 min read

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Yuri for Supabase

Aug 19 '24

Official Supabase extension for VS Code and GitHub Copilot

#webdev #opensource #ai #github

2 min read

Lulu

Aug 21 '24

SafeLine's FAQ Part 2: Installation and Upgrade Issues

#cybersecurity #tutorial #opensource #docker

4 min read

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Aug 20 '24

Shepherd: Guide your users with a new JavaScript library

#opensource #shepherd #javascript #tour

4 min read

Lulu

Aug 21 '24

SafeLine's FAQ Part 3: Login and Configuration Issues

#cybersecurity #opensource #docker #webdev

2 min read

Lulu

Aug 21 '24

SafeLine: Secure Your Web Applications Effortlessly

#cybersecurity #sql #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Lulu

Aug 21 '24

SafeLine's FAQ Part 1: IP Address and Traffic Statistics

#cybersecurity #webdev #network #opensource

3 min read

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Wanda

Aug 21 '24

Top 11 Open-Source Performance Testing Tools You Should Know

#testing #api #tooling #opensource

5 min read

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Jake Page for Distr

Aug 19 '24

2024: A new frontier for Kubernetes package management

#kubernetes #cloud #opensource #programming

8 min read

Hamdi (KHELIL) LION

Aug 21 '24

How to Make Your Docker Images Go on a Diet 🏊‍♂️

#kubernetes #docker #cloud #opensource

4 min read

Lulu

Aug 21 '24

SafeLine: A User-Friendly, Free Web Security WAF Solution

#cybersecurity #devops #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for Show us your open-source project!

Antonio

Jul 31 '24

Show us your open-source project!

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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