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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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CaadriFR

May 19

Coding Stats Are Missing What Made Strava Work: A Social Layer

#webdev #opensource #vscode #productivity

4 min read

Nirsa

May 19

Why AI coding agents fail with incomplete specs

#ai #opensource #devtools #github

3 min read

Sanskriti Harmukh for Vultr

May 20

Deploying Forgejo Lightweight Git Server on Ubuntu 24.04

#git #docker #devops #opensource

2 min read

Sanskriti Harmukh for Vultr

May 20

Deploying Tempo Distributed Tracing Backend on Ubuntu 24.04

#observability #docker #devops #opensource

2 min read

Lingdas1

May 23

Open WebUI: Your Local ChatGPT

#openwebui #llm #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Lingdas1

May 23

Local RAG: Chat With Your Documents (Open Source, Private)

#rag #llm #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Lingdas1

May 23

Qwen 3.6 & 2.5: The Most Versatile Local Models

#qwen #llm #opensource #ai

6 min read

May 19

Benchmarking five live translation systems with an open-source eval harness (including OpenAI's GPT-Realtime-Translate)

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #openai

1 min read

Lingdas1

May 23

DeepSeek-R1: The $0 o1 Alternative You Can Run Right Now

#deepseek #llm #opensource #ai

6 min read

WonderLab

May 19

RAG Series (22): Long Context vs RAG — Do We Even Need RAG?

#rag #llm #ai #opensource

6 min read

Aziz Q.

May 18

I built an open-source SIEM that detects attacks in real time

#security #opensource #python #go

2 min read

May 19

Comecei a construir a Stackovia Learning Series: uma trilha open source gratuita para aprender desenvolvimento moderno

#beginners #learning #opensource #programming

3 min read

May 23

I Built a Programming Language and Tiny Game Engine in C — Meet Pilang

#showdev #computerscience #opensource #programming

5 min read

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission: Write About Hermes Agent

Prashant Maurya

May 31

Hermes Agent's Brain: How Its Skills & Memory System Actually Works

#hermesagentchallenge #devchallenge #agents #opensource

6 min read

May 19

Load OpenSkills context into Codex or Claude Code without guessing source boundaries

#ai #opensource #productivity

1 min read

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