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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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BasitJawad

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#webdev #github #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Dan Shalev for FalkorDB

Jan 20 '25

Reducing GraphRAG Indexing Costs

#discuss #programming #tutorial #opensource

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Konstantin Krivko

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Do I need Linux?

#linux #opensource #beginners

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Fede Bonel Tozzi

Feb 8 '25

Top 5 Page Builders for React in 2026

#opensource #cms #react #webdev

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Feb 9 '25

Deploy Open Source SLMs (Small Language Models) locally - DeepSeek R1 Distilled .

#opensource #ai #rag #llm

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Mor Levi

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How to Get Started with Open Source Contributions

#opensource #github #webdev #programming

2 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Feb 27 '25

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#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

6 min read

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Introducing Awesome SaaS Directory List

#saas #directory #listing #opensource

1 min read

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🌎 Building an Empire—One Creative Venture at a Time

#startup #webdev #opensource #development

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Varun Gujarathi

Feb 9 '25

Setting Up Proxmox on a Laptop Without an Ethernet Port

#opensource #learning #cloud

3 min read

Arindam Majumder

Jan 21 '25

5 Open Source Tools for Backend Developers in 2025

#backend #webdev #opensource #javascript

8 min read

Feb 8 '25

Using Ollama models (FastAPI + React Native)

#opensource #llm #fastapi #ai

2 min read

Astrodevil

Feb 4 '25

Use Free DeepSeek R1 & V3 API with Bolt.DIY & Cursor in Just 3 Steps (EU-Hosted Model for Coding)🎉💥

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

8 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Feb 18 '25

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#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Ilbets

Feb 8 '25

Game Night Just Got a Digital Upgrade: The Deck

#gamedev #flutter #mobile #opensource

6 min read

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