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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

May 13 '25

Should you join a community to learn Rust?

#rust #opensource #beginners #community

1 min read

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OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 14 '25

Tired of Wasting Time Searching Files in Linux? Learn to Use the find Command Like an Engineer Who Gets Things Done

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #regex

4 min read

aktky

May 14 '25

Tired of GUI builders? I made a code-first alternative to Retool

#opensource #webdev #productivity #go

3 min read

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Alissa V. for PullFlow

Jun 5 '25

How We Built collab.dev: Measuring What Really Matters in Open Source

#hackathon #webdev #programming #opensource

5 min read

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May 12 '25

How to ungoogle your Business: Google Drive Edition

#opensource #webdev #devops #docker

3 min read

LaTerral Williams

May 13 '25

🔍"I Will Find You..." - Taken (Linux Edition)

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #cloud

4 min read

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fmerian

May 4 '25

Who's hiring? — May 2025

#career #devrel #writing #opensource

2 min read

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Bryantad

May 13 '25

I Built a New Programming Language for Neurodivergent Creators — Meet Sona (v0.7.0)

#programming #devtooling #opensource #neurodivergent

2 min read

Sharon

May 13 '25

Real-Time Attack Monitoring with SafeLine: Setting Up Syslog Integration

#cybersecurity #webdev #opensource #waf

2 min read

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Francesco Ciulla

May 9 '25

Should you learn Rust as your next programming language?

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

2 min read

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Nishkarsh Pandey

May 12 '25

🚀 Top 10 Best Git GUI Clients for Developers: Unleash Your Git Power! 💥

#github #gitkraken #git #opensource

4 min read

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Nitish k

May 13 '25

Issue Tracker Using Jira and Smartsheet

#programming #python #githubactions #opensource

3 min read

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Ayush kumar for NodeShift

May 13 '25

How to Install Meta Perception LM 8B Locally?

#aimodel #opensource #ai

7 min read

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Linghua Jin for CocoIndex

May 13 '25

🎉 CocoIndex hits 1,000 stars – powering real-time data for AI

#showdev #programming #opensource #datascience

4 min read

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#opensource #github #go #typescript

2 min read

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