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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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Jun 29 '25

KEDA: Smarter Scaling for Kubernetes – Event-Driven and Effortless

#kubernetes #opensource

4 min read

Jun 29 '25

MY LINUX BOOT & DRIVE ISSUES

#programming #linux #opensource #dualboot

2 min read

Gustavo A. Gutkoski

May 26 '25

Creating an AI Assistant for Technical Documentation – Part 2.1: Introduction to the Crawler

#python #ai #opensource #programming

2 min read

Aldorax

Jun 29 '25

My Trial by Fire: A Complete Chronicle of Setting Up OSO as a PLDG Cohort-3 Newcomer

#blockchain #web3 #linux #opensource

6 min read

Jun 28 '25

Automating Weekly SLA Reports — A No-Code, Practical Framework

#devops #webdev #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Coder Acco

May 26 '25

I created an code search web app made in Flask called Codel.

#opensource #softwareengineering #developers #github

1 min read

EvoAgentX

May 26 '25

🧠💥 Imagine AI agents that evolve on their own.

#programming #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Shravan Kumar B for Nixopus

Jun 27 '25

Inside Nixopus: How We Manage Our Database Migrations?

#go #opensource #database #postgres

6 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

May 25 '25

DocWire SDK 2025.05.22 Released – A Big Leap for PDF, OCR, and Core Architecture

#news #cpp #opensource #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

May 25 '25

i just relased my first pypi package

#python #flask #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

May 29 '25

Day 1 of #30DaysRHCSAChallenge – Why Can’t This User Log In?

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

2 min read

Phuc (Felix) Bui

Jun 28 '25

I Was Tired of Manually Tracking My GitHub Repos

#github #opensource #claudeai #vibecoding

3 min read

Jul 7 '25

Reactive HTML Without JavaScript Frameworks 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Masataka Mizukoshi

Jun 28 '25

Beyond Traditional Kafka: Building a Stateless, Pluggable Broker

#kafka #rust #opensource

3 min read

Steven

Jun 28 '25

I Needed Clean Exchange Rate Data, So I Built My Own API

#api #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

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