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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

Sep 3 '24

Reading Files in Rust

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

3 min read

Sep 6 '24

Open source, end-to-end encrypted, private forms

#opensource #privacy #rust

1 min read

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Sep 6 '24

Open Source Tools for AWS Cost Optimization: The Ultimate Guide

#opensource #aws #costoptimization #tools

4 min read

Lulu

Sep 6 '24

How to Configure HTTPS and DDoS Protection with SafeLine WAF

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #network

4 min read

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Manik Aggarwal for CORE

Sep 5 '24

5 Open-source alternatives to Jira, Linear and Asana

#javascript #productivity #opensource #ai

5 min read

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Jesse Williams for Jozu

Sep 4 '24

Turn DevOps to MLOps Pipelines With This Open-Source Tool

#programming #devops #opensource #machinelearning

6 min read

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MOHAMMAD SAJJAD ZAKIR

Sep 17 '24

10 Advanced Developer Tools to Elevate Your Workflow ⚙️💡

#beginners #devops #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Lulu

Aug 26 '24

DIY Deployment of SafeLine WAF on K8s

#kubernetes #cybersecurity #opensource #devops

3 min read

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NocoBase

Sep 4 '24

Top 8 Open-Source CRUD Projects with the Most GitHub Stars

#opensource #webdev #github #development

10 min read

Mohith93

Aug 7 '24

Open Source Reverse ETL

#community #ai #opensource #database

1 min read

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Tachi 0x

Sep 5 '24

Why Rig? 5 Compelling Reasons to Use Rig for Your Next LLM Project

#rust #ai #llm #opensource

8 min read

Sep 5 '24

Set() usage in Zustand’s source code.

#javascript #zustand #opensource #react

3 min read

Lulu

Sep 5 '24

How to Set Up Free Reverse Proxy with High-Security Protection

#opensource #devops #docker #webdev

3 min read

Lulu

Sep 5 '24

SafeLine WAF: Free, Powerful Web Security in a Few Clicks

#devops #opensource #docker #cybersecurity

2 min read

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NocoBase

Sep 3 '24

Top 11 Open Source Internal Tools with the Most GitHub Stars

#opensource #github #development #webdev

8 min read

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