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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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Muhammed Shafin P

Jul 6 '25

NeuroShellOS Sample 1 – A Conceptual Application

#ai #opensource #neuroshellos #linux

1 min read

kako-jun

Jul 6 '25

Introducing Diffx: A Rust-Based AI Diff Tool That Understands Structure

#rust #ai #devtools #opensource

5 min read

Shahid Foy

Jul 6 '25

🚨 Build Better Alerts: Meet N1netails – A Lightweight, Self-Hosted Alerting System

#opensource #devops #selfhosted #alerting

2 min read

Jul 5 '25

Introducing Cristalyse: Grammar of Graphics Charts for Flutter

#flutter #dart #opensource #charts

4 min read

Jul 5 '25

Why I Shifted from VS Code to Zed on Mac: A Developer's Story 🚀

#programming #softwaredevelopment #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Jul 5 '25

I made my first game with flutter, it's open-source

#discuss #gamedev #opensource #flutter

1 min read

Jun 2 '25

Open Source Is Waiting for You: How to Stop Being Afraid and Start Contributing

#opensource #webdev #beginners #career

5 min read

Ilya Kashnitsky

Jul 5 '25

Zotero hacks: reliably setup unlimited storage for your personal academic library

#tutorial #academia #bibliography #opensource

13 min read

Jul 5 '25

Turn Your Android Phone into a Virtual Webcam for OBS on Linux (Without DroidCam)

#opensource #linux #popos #ubuntu

3 min read

JacobHsu

Jul 5 '25

Claude Code

#claude #opensource #development #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Jul 5 '25

Introducing Setbian — for Debian 📦

#setbian #debian #linux #opensource

2 min read

Sevaki Rajasekar

Jul 8 '25

🎉Announcement for a conference!

#techtalks #opensource #linux

1 min read

SteamPixel

Jul 5 '25

I built a reactive no-code flow engine that runs entirely in your browser, no login, no backend

#showdev #opensource #nocode #webdev

2 min read

Jul 5 '25

🌟 We Did It - AquaScript Is Live On Product Hunt 🚀

#productivity #opensource #aquascript #programming

1 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jul 4 '25

Project of the Week - 10 Weeks Later!

#discuss #programming #opensource #github

4 min read

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