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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.

submission guidelines

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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Mithu_kr

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"Debugging 102:"Stack Trace (JavaScript) — How to Read It Like a Pro

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Timon Vonk

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Announcing Swiftide 0.31

#programming #ai #rust #opensource

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How to Install Ubuntu on Your Laptop or Desktop: A Step-by-Step Guide

#ubuntu #linux #beginners #opensource

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PikaPods

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Introducing PikaPods: Your Open-Source Hosting Platform

#opensource #pikapods #webdev #beginners

1 min read

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#hacktoberfest #ai #git #opensource

6 min read

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How to Get Selected for GSoC (Google Summer of Code) - My Personal Experience at Accord Project

#gsoc #googlesummerofcode #opensource

5 min read

Kushagra Srivastava

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My Google Summer of Code Journey: Part 2

#programming #kernel #freebsd #opensource

5 min read

ByteKnight

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🧅 Oniux: Tor Routing for Linux

#opensource #cybersecurity #tor

1 min read

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Auto-Discovering Console Commands in Power Modules

#php #software #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Altinity

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Understanding Detached Parts in ClickHouse®

#devops #opensource #clickhouse #troubleshooting

11 min read

terryncew

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Open Line Protocol — a geometry-first wire for AI agents (MIT)

#opensource #ai #agents #protocol

1 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

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#hacktoberfest #devchallenge #opensource

4 min read

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Analyzing Python Code Quality via MCP

#tooling #opensource #python #mcp

2 min read

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Oct 19 '25

How to generate revenue from Open Source

#opensource #revenu #programming

14 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Oleksandra

Oct 17 '25

Adding a new feature to vscode-pets project

#showdev #vscode #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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