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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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Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Jun 4

Developer Productivity Showdown: Notion vs. Google Sheets vs. Dedicated PM Tools

#discuss #productivity #devops #opensource

5 min read

Sharon

Jun 4

What Is a WAF—and Why Your Web App Needs One

#websecurity #waf #safeline #opensource

3 min read

Linghua Jin for CocoIndex

Jun 4

Build Real-Time Knowledge Graphs from Documents Using CocoIndex + Kuzu (with LLMs & Live Updates)

#showdev #programming #python #opensource

4 min read

NocoBase

Jun 4

NocoBase v1.7.0 Officially Released

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

4 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jun 4

How to Install and Run Chatterbox Locally

#ai #nlp #opensource #chatterbox

7 min read

Aniket Raj

Jun 4

Project KARL AI

#ai #programming #kotlin #opensource

1 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Jun 4

How to Install NVIDIA AceReason-Nemotron-14B Locally?

#nvidia #opensource #ai #llm

7 min read

Jun 4

Opensource Slack Alternative

#webdev #javascript #opensource #webrtc

1 min read

Jun 4

Calling Devs: Help Build Mothrly — A Digital Village for Mothers

#womenintech #opensource #reactnative #collaboration

1 min read

Carrie

Jun 4

How to Implement Upstream Failover in SafeLine WAF

#failover #highavailability #safelinewaf #opensource

3 min read

Jun 3

🚀 From Idea to GitHub in 2 Days: Introducing InkCollector

#abotwrotethis #opensource #devjournal #python

2 min read

Jun 4

The Reference Data Problem That's Been Driving Developers Crazy (And How I Think I Finally Fixed It?)

#programming #opensource #dotnet #microservices

8 min read

Jun 4

Self hosted maps for (practically) free

#opensource #openstreetmap #tutorial #frontend

8 min read

Chitransh Soral

Jun 3

DeadLock - Big Changes

#opensource #python #datascience #machinelearning

2 min read

Carrie

Jun 3

Understanding and Implementing Rate Limiting with SafeLine WAF

#ratelimiting #ddos #waf #opensource

2 min read

Siddarth

Jun 3

My Linux Kernel Mentorship experience

#linux #kernel #opensource

2 min read

Carmine Paolino

Jun 3

RubyLLM 1.3.0: Just When You Thought the Developer Experience Couldn't Get Any Better 🎉

#ruby #rails #ai #opensource

4 min read

Igor M

Jun 3

10 AI-Powered Tools That Are Basically Coding Superpowers 🧠⚡

#ai #development #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Code Area

Jun 3

💰 The Best Way to Earn Money Online as a Developer in 2025

#ai #beginners #devops #opensource

2 min read

Juan Manuel Barea Martínez

Jun 3

Llama-Stack: The Developer Framework for LLM Workflows

#ai #development #softwaredevelopment #opensource

1 min read

Jun 3

⚙️ Go Tools: Yet Another Configuration Tool for Go Applications — zerocfg

#go #programming #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Jun 3

A Quiz to Explore AI Safety and Trust-Based Access to Advanced Systems

#ai #opensource #chatgpt #security

1 min read

Jun 3

Getting Started with Chart.js – Make Beautiful Charts with Just a Few Lines of Code

#webdev #javascript #opensource #learning

2 min read

Fatih Kürekçi

Jun 2

🚀 I Built 4 Free Frontend Tools for Developers (Box Shadow, Meta Preview & more)

#frontend #css #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Damian Beldegrin

Jun 2

Building a Console-Based Blackjack Game in C# – Card Rendering, Clean Code and a Simple AI Bot

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #cli

2 min read

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