In this blog one will learn what is meant by open source and its key features.
What is Open Source?
Open Source is a place where all the developers around the globe. In and around community, company, organization come together to develop the product, software or service that is building by the core members of that projects who are known as moderators.
Platform where you can find open source projects
- GitHub :
Github is a place where the world builds software. Millions of developers and companies build, ship, and maintain their software on GitHub—the largest and most advanced development platform in the world.
- GitLab :
The One DevOps Platform. From planning to production, bring teams together in one application. Ship secure code faster, deploy to any cloud, and drive business results.
With best-in-class Jira integration, and built-in CI/CD, Bitbucket Cloud is the native Git tool in Atlassian’s Open DevOps solution. Join millions of developers who choose to build on Bitbucket.
A complete workflow to write, review & deploy code. Beanstalk is run by Wildbit, a software company founded in 1999 in Philadelphia. We built Beanstalk to remove the hassle from hosting code and managing deployments, allowing teams to focus on writing amazing software instead. We’re profitable, debt-free and privately owned. Since 2007 over 100,000 companies both large and small have used Beanstalk to improve their development process.
Launchpad is a software collaboration platform that provides features like Bug tracking, Code hosting using Bazaar and Git, Code reviews, Ubuntu package building and hosting, Translations, Mailing lists, Answer tracking and FAQs, Specification tracking.
The Complete Open-Source and Business Software Platform. Create, collaborate & distribute to nearly 30 million users worldwide
Phabricator is a set of tools for developing software. It includes applications for code review, repository hosting, bug tracking, project management, and more.
GitBucket :
Git Bucket is Open Source, Git platform on JVM and A Git platform powered by Scala with easy installation, high extensibility & GitHub API compatibility.
Gitea :
Gitea is a community managed lightweight code hosting solution written in Go. It is published under the MIT license.Apache Allura :
Apache Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs, and more for any number of individual projects. Read about all of Allura's features or compare features to other OSS forge software.
Resources:
github-alternatives-to-host-open-source-projects
How to say a project is opensource or not?
Every Project present in the platforms like GitHub will have LICENSE.md in the main root code base by seeing it only we have to say that the project is open source.
The different types of open-source license are shown below:
- Apache License 2.0
- BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" license
- BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" license
- GNU General Public License (GPL)
- GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)
- MIT license
- Mozilla Public License 2.0
- Common Development and Distribution License
- Eclipse Public License version 2.0
Why everyone prefer Open Source?
In Open Source all the developers, programmers and non programmers can use the product without any fees or payment to the product or service.
The product is secure as most of the bugs and problems present in the product are being resolved daily by the community members and users who has programming knowledge on the tools and tech stack that are being used in the project.
when a developer fixes some bugs or add new feature it adds value to the product and to him in the community of the open source project that he/she contributing.
In few cases he/she can get the remote job offers in that company for the contribution and work they are doing for the community.
In Open Source one can make network with technical experts who has strong and good knowledge in that stack and they are present in that project from so many years by contributing, developing and maintaining the product that they are making.
Major projects of Open Source :
Linux:
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Based on the kernel of Linux so many operating system and flavor has been developed some of them are Debian based are Ubuntu, kali Linux. parrot, Linux mint, red hat, Black OS, Qubes OS, Macintosh, windows, android and so many hundreds of operating system prepared as per they requirement from common use to enterprise level.
Android:
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Resources:
https://www.veriday.com/blog/6-open-source-technologies-changed-world
Benefits of Open Source:
- Through open source if you are a student or fresher or beginner in programming, software world you will get an exposure to real world tech codebase or source code where you can see and modify the codebase for betterment of the product or service that the company / organization developing from which you will get real world software development experience from the comfort of your home.
- you can develop new tools, technologies, programming languages in the process of developing, you will learn new thing if you are a developer and you will lots of resources from the mentors of the project if you utilize the chance properly.
- The work done in open source can be showed as experience in your resume when applying for the companies using same tools and technologies and mostly they will hire as you have practical knowledge using the tools and techniques.
Conclusion:
I wish that you have got idea what is meant by opensource and how it can help you in your career development.