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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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Mr Punk da Silva

Sep 5

Carbonyl: Forking Chromium to Render Live in a Terminal

#news #programming #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Nguyen Phuc Hai

Sep 4

Inside Askimo: My Daily Journey with an AI CLI

#cli #ai #opensource #openai

3 min read

Chethan

Sep 4

Understanding Linux Permissions: A Beginner-Friendly Guide for DevOps 🚀

#devops #linux #learning #opensource

2 min read

Altinity

Sep 4

Announcing Project Antalya – Infinitely Scalable ClickHouse® Query on 10x Cheaper Iceberg Storage

#database #iceberg #opensource #clickhouse

10 min read

euhfs

Sep 4

I made a password generator, notes app, and to-do app — all open source on GitHub + hosted on my site

#programming #opensource #developer #flutter

1 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Sep 5

Project of the Week: Emotion-js

#discuss #javascript #opensource #react

3 min read

Philipp Krenn for Elastic

Sep 5

Elasticsearch: 15 years of indexing it all, finding what matters

#elasticsearch #kibana #opensource

5 min read

Sep 8

First Hands-On Experience with Apple Containers!

#containers #opensource #containerapps #containerization

5 min read

Sep 8

Why Does Your Team Need Kubernetes?

#kubernetes #cloud #programming #opensource

5 min read

howard hua

Sep 4

Wplace 63/64-color palette — free download (HEX & GPL)

#design #pixelart #resources #opensource

1 min read

Sep 7

💓 AIHB: Giving AI a HeartBeat Through SPRL

#sacredpause #tml #opensource #ai

3 min read

Sep 4

Inflate - Next level compression,straight from the terminal!

#programming #python #cli #opensource

1 min read

Sep 6

Sushify - A New Free & Essential Tool For AI App Developers

#ai #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

ElshadHu

Sep 3

My Open Source Journey Begins with GitHub & Magic Enum

#opensource #gith #cpp #learning

2 min read

Sep 4

How a "Boring" CLI Cleanup in Apache Kafka Tells a Big Story

#github #kafka #opensource #buildinpublic

5 min read

Sep 3

GitHub Education Student Pack: A Complete Guide for Students

#github #opensource #developer #programming

3 min read

Laura Morinigo for GenAI Works

Sep 3

Inside an agent’s brain: Why AI Needs Open Orchestration

#ai #architecture #powerfuldevs #opensource

5 min read

Judy

Sep 3

Barcode Inspection and Verification (# 60)--SPL Programming Practice

#programming #productivity #devops #opensource

2 min read

f14XuanLv

Sep 3

【Claude-Powerest-Manager_Enhancer】Efficient Claude Manager Script

#ai #productivity #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Sep 2

ArtistAssistApp Improvements – August 2025

#showdev #opensource #pwa #react

2 min read

Sep 3

Day 5: Building the Foundation

#codenewbie #opensource #ai #learning

3 min read

Sep 2

Flameshot - My favorite screeshot app

#flameshot #cli #opensource #macos

3 min read

Mak Sò

Sep 7

🧠Loop of Truth: From Loose Tricks to Structured Reasoning

#ai #redis #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

Zachary Podbela

Sep 2

[Free + Open Source] Say Goodbye to Admin Apps: Make Your Django REST API Available to Claude/ChatGPT with a few lines of code

#opensource #mcp #django #sideprojects

1 min read

Sep 2

Gobian:My own OS

#programming #opensource #development #coding

1 min read

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