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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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Pavel

Sep 2 '25

I Built a Deep Learning Framework in Rust from Scratch. Here’s How It Works.

#rust #opensource #deeplearning #machinelearning

3 min read

brovatten

Aug 2 '25

CodeBoarding: Interactive Diagrams of Code

#ai #python #programming #opensource

2 min read

Aug 2 '25

Build a Professional Harvard-Style Academic CV with This Open Source Jekyll Theme

#jekyll #opensource #github #webdev

1 min read

Jay

Sep 4 '25

Set up your own personal AI Stack: Longform Version

#showdev #ai #opensource #linux

13 min read

Matúš Námešný

Sep 4 '25

Llama-Server is All You Need (Plus a Management Layer)

#showdev #ai #mlops #opensource

4 min read

Aug 1 '25

The System You Cannot Install: Dismantling Reality from Code That Was Never Written

#linux #privacy #selfhosted #opensource

2 min read

Nguyen Phuc Hai

Sep 4 '25

Inside Askimo: My Daily Journey with an AI CLI

#cli #ai #opensource #openai

3 min read

Altinity

Sep 4 '25

Announcing Project Antalya – Infinitely Scalable ClickHouse® Query on 10x Cheaper Iceberg Storage

#database #iceberg #opensource #clickhouse

10 min read

Sep 4 '25

Apache Arrow dev list digest (Aug 25–29 2025)

#database #dataengineering #datascience #opensource

4 min read

Chethan

Sep 4 '25

Understanding Linux Permissions: A Beginner-Friendly Guide for DevOps 🚀

#devops #linux #learning #opensource

2 min read

kvendingoldo for AWS Community Builders

Aug 1 '25

How to create AWS Serverless Valkey via OpenTofu

#elasticache #opensource #opentofu #terraform

8 min read

Aug 15 '25

Why I’m Building Cloak UI — The Pain of UI Vendor Lock-In 🚀

#designsystems #ui #frontend #opensource

3 min read

Sep 4 '25

GNU openVBS - VBScript,Reborn

#programming #python #opensource #automation

5 min read

Saksham Solanki

Sep 2 '25

I built a simple todo app that actually gets out of your way

#javascript #tooling #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Sep 4 '25

IMake: Bringing Builds Back to Makefile’s Essence — An Unprecedentedly Simple Experience

#linux #opensource #devops #programming

5 min read

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