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Open Source Software

The licensing and culture behind Linux: what open source means in practice, why the ecosystem is built the way it is, and the myths worth correcting.

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Gitea vs Forgejo: Which Self-Hosted Git Forge Should You Run? Forgejo began as a fork of Gitea and is now a separate project. How they differ in governance, licensing, features, and federation, how hard it is to switch, and which one fits a homelab, a team, or a public instance. OpenTofu vs Terraform: Licensing, Compatibility, and How to Switch OpenTofu forked from Terraform after HashiCorp moved to the Business Source License in 2023. How the two differ now, what OpenTofu adds such as state encryption, how compatible they remain, and how to migrate a project. Open Source Licences Explained: GPL, MIT, and the Source-Available Problem Copyleft versus permissive is the classic split, and the live argument is now about licences like BSL and SSPL that look open and are not. What each actually requires, why AGPL exists, and what changes when a project relicenses. Linux History Linux began as a hobby project by a Finnish student in 1991 and became the operating system powering most of the internet. This is the story of how it happened. Linux Kernel vs Operating System: What's the Difference? The kernel and the operating system are not the same thing. Understanding the difference explains why "Linux" runs on everything from servers to smartphones, and why your distro matters as much as the kernel inside it. What Is Linux? Linux is the kernel at the heart of most of the internet, Android, and a growing share of desktops. Here is what it actually is, how it got here, and why it matters in 2026. What Is Open Source Software? Open source software makes its source code publicly available for anyone to read, modify, and distribute. Here is what that means in practice, why it matters, and how it underpins most of the modern internet. Why Linux Is Everywhere Linux runs on the majority of the world's web servers, every Android phone, most supercomputers, countless embedded devices, and much of the cloud. This article explains why it won.

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