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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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May 24 '25

Introducing AI Shahab: A Free Persian AI Chatbot with the New "cas" Language Model

#showdev #ai #opensource #discuss

1 min read

Linghua Jin for CocoIndex

May 24 '25

How to build index with text embeddings

#showdev #opensource #ai #python

3 min read

May 24 '25

Ultimate Guide to Free & Open-Source AI Agent Frameworks

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mohamed Ebrahim Wahshey

May 3 '25

10 Tiny Developer Tools I Built to Save Time – Free & Browser-Based

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

1 min read

May 23 '25

Free Linux Foundation Certifications on Cybersecurity, IoT, Web Development, and More

#learning #beginners #opensource #career

1 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

May 22 '25

Encore's MCP Server lets your AI tools introspect your app

#ai #go #typescript #opensource

4 min read

Pavel

May 23 '25

# 🧩 nodeBond: Lightweight IPC for Node.js — revived and improved

#node #javascript #microservices #opensource

2 min read

Dave Tofflemire

May 23 '25

Forged in Silence: Building Sigil Without an Audience

#opensource #rust #ai #machinelearning

2 min read

May 22 '25

Feature release 0.49.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

#opensource #gha #spelling

2 min read

May 23 '25

RHCSA Prep for Absolute Beginners: The “Diskless but Determined” Edition

#linux #cloudwhistler #beginners #opensource

3 min read

May 12 '25

Getting Started with Linux: System Information and User Management

#cloudwhistler #devops #opensource #linux

2 min read

Mike Freedman for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Jun 10 '25

The Database Meets the Lakehouse: Toward a Unified Architecture for Modern Applications

#news #opensource #database #postgres

6 min read

Chitransh Soral

Jun 6 '25

DeadLock - 50% Complete

#python #datascience #machinelearning #opensource

1 min read

LaTerral Williams

May 23 '25

🎨 Add Some Personality to Your Terminal with Figlet and Lolcat 🌈

#cloudwhistler #linux #cloud #opensource

3 min read

May 23 '25

Why I Built goboot: A Developer-First Go Scaffolder That Actually Does Something

#go #opensource #productivity #cli

2 min read

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