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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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Kyle Homen

Oct 3

OSD600 Lab 4

#cpp #cli #opensource

4 min read

Daniel Duc

Nov 6

🚀 Terminator SSH Manager — A Beautiful SSH Connection Plugin for Terminator

#linux #opensource #ssh #terminator

3 min read

Nov 6

Building a Production-Ready AI Call Center with Asterisk in 15 Minutes

#ai #asterisk #voiceai #opensource

4 min read

Tongyi Lab

Nov 7

Nov7, 2025 | The Tongyi Weekly: Your weekly dose of cutting-edge AI from Tongyi Lab

#ai #opensource #llm #programming

3 min read

Manish Shivanandhan

Nov 7

How To Run an Open-Source LLM on Your Personal Computer

#ai #llm #opensource #programming

6 min read

睿廷洪

Oct 4

I built a Chrome extension that lets you automatically solve CAPTCHAs with Google Gemini — and it’s totally FREE!

#showdev #opensource #automation #gemini

1 min read

Nivethithaa Saravanavel

Oct 8

linux - cd,ls,Hard&Soft Link

#ubuntu #opensource #learning #linux

2 min read

Oleksandra

Nov 7

Adding Unit Tests to repo-context-packager

#opensource #cpp #testing #cli

2 min read

Praanesh S

Oct 7

☕ coffee.tmux: A Modern tmux Plugin Manager

#tmux #coffeetmux #opensource #terminal

4 min read

Oct 4

Adding TOML Config Support and Reviewing PRs

#git #opensource #programming #webdev

2 min read

Nov 7

JSZip library in Chef codebase.

#jszip #zip #opensource #chef

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

MUHAMMAD USMAN AWAN

Nov 2

QuickDoodle: Real-Time Drawing & Guessing Game (with AI Agents Coming Soon!) – Hacktoberfest 2025 Spotlight

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Gunner Andersen

Oct 3

Tired of Rewriting Web3 Integrations? Help us grow M3S, the New Modular Open-Source Standard

#programming #web3 #blockchain #opensource

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Jean-Phi Baconnais for Zenika

Nov 7

Hacktoberfest 25 : l’édition Zenika Open Source

#opensource #hacktoberfest

4 min read

Oct 26

WarehouseFlow - Spring Boot Project for Corporate Use

#java #devops #opensource #backend

1 min read

Aspire Softserv

Nov 7

What Does Odoo Migration Really Cost? A Transparent Pricing Breakdown for 2025

#management #opensource #resources

6 min read

Oct 3

How to get and use free PVS-Studio license. Part 3: working with report and warnings

#freelicense #programming #opensource #osu

9 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Winnie

Oct 3

Open Source Contribution

#opensource #hacktoberfest #onlydust #web3

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Nov 2

How Being Part of a Community Took Me from Hesitant to 5 PRs Merged

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Reza

Nov 7

Kubernetes Network Observability with Calico (Manifest based)

#kubernetes #projectcalico #devops #opensource

12 min read

Atfa Solangi for PullFlow

Nov 6

The Complete Guide to Your First Open Source Contribution

#discuss #webdev #github #opensource

4 min read

Ankit M

Oct 7

Why Game Preservation Is the Next Big Tech Responsibility

#webdev #opensource #gamechallenge #unity3d

4 min read

Oct 3

Just made a new Clicker game

#opensource

1 min read

Nov 5

I Built an Open-Source Task Timer Widget for Windows — and Published It on Microsoft Store

#microsoft #opensource #productivity #winui

1 min read

fr0st

Nov 6

XPicker - a simple and lightweight color picker for Windows

#showdev #tooling #opensource #webdev

1 min read

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