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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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Jamie-Lee Salazar

Apr 1 '25

How to build an AI Agent for Gmail that can read and send emails (Python + OpenAI + Streamlit)

#ai #programming #opensource

1 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 12 '25

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 1)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Apr 12 '25

Zeta 1 - My Own LLM

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

1 min read

Edvaldo Freitas for Kodus

Apr 10 '25

Kodus – An open source AI code review engine (AST and LLW, less noise)

#opensource #codereview #ai

1 min read

Apr 12 '25

10 Reasons Why You Should Use WordPress for Your Website

#wordpress #contentmanagementsystem #opensource #easytolearn

4 min read

Apr 18 '25

Everything about AI Function Calling and MCP, the keyword for Agentic AI

#typescript #programming #ai #opensource

15 min read

Chielo Chiamaka

Apr 12 '25

User Management in Linux

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #redhat

3 min read

Abdelkader Boudih

Apr 12 '25

The Rise of 'Vibe Packages' in Open Source Development

#opensource #vibecoding

3 min read

Oussama

Mar 9 '25

Hello everyone, Does anyone know of an open-source API that I can use with Flutter to get an image URL of a car model?

#help #flutter #api #opensource

1 min read

Pantelis Deligiannidis

Mar 9 '25

Tutorial - Personal Website with SvelteKit and TailwindCSS

#tutorial #svelte #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Yvonne

Apr 12 '25

Managing EC2 Instances with the AWS CLI

#devops #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

4 min read

Aditya Tripathi

Apr 12 '25

The Art vs. Science of Prompt Engineering: Where Creativity Meets Logic

#ai #opensource #agaenticai #gpt3

4 min read

Sam

Apr 12 '25

Letting Agents Write and Review Code — A 0dev Milestone(Demo)

#genai #ai #opensource #python

1 min read

theconcept-technologies

Apr 11 '25

Debug Smarter: Meet xDebug Pro for Chrome

#php #extension #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Hussein Nakhostin

Apr 12 '25

Forgot the CAPTCHA Again? This Simple C#/.NET Open-Source Package Can Be Your Bot-Stopping Hero!

#dotnet #csharp #security #opensource

2 min read

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