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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).

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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Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jun 16 '25

How to Install and Run MiniCPM 4.0 8B Locally

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #tutorial

7 min read

May 17 '25

Day 6 – “Where Did It Go?!” | Mastering the find, head, tail, and wc Commands in RHEL 9

#linux #opensource #beginners #cloudwhistler

3 min read

Jun 16 '25

Assessing Security Risks of Open Source Repos

#security #opensource

2 min read

SOG-web

May 17 '25

Breaking Up With ORMs – Part One: Reclaiming Control with Custom SQL Adapters

#backenddevelopment #webdev #opensource #database

4 min read

Maksim Balabash

May 26 '25

How to Create a VSCode Extension That Uses a Machine Learning Model Under the Hood

#opensource #ai #learning #javascript

11 min read

xuri

May 12 '25

Excelize 2.9.1 Released - Powerful open-source library for spreadsheet (Excel) document

#go #excel #excelize #opensource

4 min read

Jun 15 '25

🛡️ A Swahili SMS Scam Dataset and a Machine Learning Tool to Use It

#datascience #machinelearning #opensource #python

3 min read

May 13 '25

Day 19/ 30 Days of Linux Mastery: File Viewing Commands (cat, less, more, head, tail)

#redhat #opensource #cloudwhistler #beginners

3 min read

mtur2007

May 12 '25

Tired of using pprint to debug nested lists? Try visual structure tracing.

#programming #python #opensource

3 min read

Sharon

May 12 '25

A No-Nonsense, Free-to-Start WAF Devs Actually Like

#websecurity #waf #safeline #opensource

3 min read

Kushal_Meghani1644

Jun 15 '25

🚀 Introducing RustyTodos: A Clean, Minimal TUI Todo App in Rust

#programming #opensource #learning #rust

1 min read

Prit Patel

Jun 14 '25

Introducing KemLang – A Gujarati-Inspired Toy Programming Language with a Smile 😄

#programming #python #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jun 13 '25

Project of the Week: MapLibre

#discuss #opensource #programming #softwareengineering

2 min read

Jun 5 '25

I replaced the HTMX in the project to this module🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Sharon

May 15 '25

Is SafeLine WAF Just Hype or Can It Really Block 30,000+ Attacks? — Let’s Test It

#webdev #waf #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

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