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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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Alexander Galea

Mar 19

The Awesome Power of an LLM in Your Terminal

#programming #devtools #linux #opensource

12 min read

Bonnie for CopilotKit

Mar 20

Easily Build a UI for Your AI Agent in Minutes (LangGraph + CopilotKit)⚡️

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

13 min read

Gittech

Mar 18

🌍 50 New GitHub Projects You Can’t Ignore!

#programming #webdev #github #opensource

15 min read

Feb 13

Navigating the Dynamics of Software Project Forking in Open Source

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #forking

2 min read

Mar 19

Running Gemma 3 Locally: A Step-by-Step Guide

#ai #productivity #opensource #google

3 min read

Feb 13

I built an open-source library to generate specialised machine learning models from natural language

#llm #ai #machinelearning #opensource

1 min read

Jonatan Jansson

Mar 18

News on Fedora Linux 42 Beta

#fedora #linux #opensource

1 min read

Feb 13

Financial Transparency in Open Source Projects: A Key to Sustainable Development

#projectfunding #opensource #financialtransparency #accountability

2 min read

Feb 13

Monetizing Open Source Projects: A Comprehensive Guide

#blockchain #opensource #monetization #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

RV Mayeth Artesano

Mar 8

OpenxAI Is Hiring 30 Developers

#webdev #ai #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

Feb 13

# AgriTrak Pro

#webdev #programming #opensource #startup

3 min read

Runix

Mar 18

The Top 10 Open-Source Chatbot Frameworks of 2025

#opensource #python #programming #developers

3 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Mar 18

Build a Production-Ready SaaS Application in TypeScript

#webdev #javascript #opensource #node

5 min read

Mar 17

25+ Best Open Source Icon Library Options (2025 Edition)

#iconslibrary #opensource #development #ui

9 min read

Linghua Jin for CocoIndex

Mar 18

On-premise structured extraction with LLM using Ollama

#discuss #ai #opensource #programming

6 min read

Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D for Microsoft Azure

Mar 10

#ModelMondays - A Weekly Series To Build Our AI Model IQ

#ai #python #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Simplr

Mar 29

Ollama vs. LM Studio: Your First Guide to Running LLMs Locally

#ai #machinelearning #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Ezo Saleh

Mar 17

Semantic Caching for LLM Execution Plans: How We Cut Costs by 90%

#ai #opensource #go #tooling

10 min read

Anupam Chakrawarti

Feb 12

10 of my favorite open-source android apps on F-droid

#opensource #fdroid #android

2 min read

Luca Argentieri

Mar 17

A new GSAP Nuxt Module

#nuxt #gsap #opensource #animation

2 min read

FaiChou

Feb 12

IntraPaste: A Modern Intranet-First Content Sharing Solution with Next.js and MinIO

#webdev #opensource #nextjs #swiftui

2 min read

Feb 11

B2B vs. B2C Sales: Key Differences in Marketing Strategies

#beginners #opensource #learning #design

4 min read

Arseniy

Mar 17

Tired of Shopify? Build and launch your own eCommerce platform in seconds!

#webdev #opensource #node

2 min read

Amdadul Haque Milon

Mar 17

Forget OpenAI Sora: Meet Open-Sora, the AI Video Tool Everyone's Talking About

#openaisora #opensource #sora #opensora

6 min read

Oleh

Feb 11

[Open source] Figma plugin for image optimization, favicon generation and background removing.

#opensource #nestjs #react

1 min read

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