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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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Getting Started with Linux: A Beginner's Guide to Basic Commands

#linux #opensource #webdev #beginners

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#opensource #beginners #programming

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Agustin V. Startari

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#discuss #ai #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Siddhesh

Aug 15 '25

Introducing NeuroVerse Beta‑3 — Modular, Private AI Assistant for Android

#programming #opensource #android #mobile

2 min read

Ismoy Belizaire

Aug 20 '25

Kotlin Multiplatform + Compose: Unified Camera & Gallery Picker with Expect/Actual and Permission Handling

#opensource #kotlin #android #ios

3 min read

Okoye Ndidiamaka

Jul 12 '25

💻 From Invisible to In-Demand: How Open Source Can Instantly Elevate Your Developer Brand

#webdev #opensource #frontend #github

4 min read

Oni

Jul 16 '25

Kimi K2: The 1 Trillion Parameter Open-Source AI That's Redefining Agentic Intelligence

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #llm

5 min read

Kyle

Jul 11 '25

Let's make sound visible for the world - Building the future of audio visualization together

#webdev #javascript #opensource #startup

2 min read

Jul 11 '25

My First Day In JAVA, introduction and JDK, JRE, JVM and Features.

#beginners #java #programming #opensource

2 min read

Om Shree

Aug 14 '25

Why MCP Uses JSON-RPC Instead of REST or gRPC

#ai #tutorial #opensource #learning

3 min read

Mayank Kumar Chaudhari

Jul 12 '25

🔥 Blazing Fast Markdown Rendering for React – Benchmarked & Battle-Tested

#react #markdown #opensource #performance

2 min read

Tersoo Ortserga Mator

Jul 11 '25

Open-source HTTP Alternative to PubSub/Kafka for Event Notifications

#programming #opensource #eventdriven #webdev

1 min read

Jul 11 '25

Use the tiktoken package to tokenize text for OpenAI LLMs.

#opensource #openai #nextjs #tiktoken

3 min read

NocoBase

Jul 16 '25

NocoBase CRM Solution is Now Live — Ready for You to Explore

#opensource #lowcode #nocode

5 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Jul 11 '25

MoGe: Revolutionizing 3D Geometry Estimation from Single Images

#3d #monocular #computer #opensource

3 min read

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