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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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Augustus

Mar 17

I open-sourced our Redis-based webhook replacement (And why you should try it)

#webdev #microservices #eventdriven #opensource

6 min read

Runix

Mar 17

I Built an Open-Source AI Chatbot That You Can Fully Own – No Vendor Lock-In! 🚀

#opensource #ai #productivity #python

1 min read

pete

Apr 20

MatrixSwarm Real-Time Agent Resurrection: Socket-Free Ops with Inotify and Pod Protocol

#webdev #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Jialu Xian

Apr 20

Open Source MCP Playground - TRMX.Ai

#mcp #aiagent #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Jaime Hernández

Apr 20

🧠 JSON AI Inspector: Analyzing JSON with AI (Open Source Tool)

#python #ai #json #opensource

2 min read

Apr 19

Day 5/30 Days of Linux Mastery: User Account Management Like a Pro

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

5 min read

Guergana Tzatchkova

Apr 17

Working on the Open Data Editor at the Open Knowledge Foundation

#opensource #react #opendata #electron

2 min read

NoAngel

Mar 16

BEAR OS: The best kernel.

#programming #opensource #linux #c

1 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 19

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 8)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

1 min read

Apr 18

Integrating MCP Servers

#ai #llm #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Apr 19

How I Built Soplang — A Programming Language Inspired by Somali (And Why You Don’t Start From Scratch)

#programming #soplang #opensource #somalia

3 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 8

Mastering the 'mv' Command in Linux: Move, Organize, and Rename Like a Pro

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Open CDB

Mar 16

Open CDB v0.1

#ai #chatgpt #frontend #opensource

1 min read

Zhang Wei

Apr 30

Blockchain's Role in Enhancing Open Source Transparency

#blockchain #opensource #transparency

8 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 18

Top 25 Linux Commands You’ll Use Every Day (with examples)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Apr 18

Codex CLI – Adding Azure OpenAI to Codex by using… Codex!

#openai #azure #ai #opensource

3 min read

Kanahiro Iguchi for MIERUNE

Mar 16

Convert GeoJSON to PMTiles with AWS Serverless Pattern

#aws #serverless #opensource #lambda

4 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

Apr 18

KitOps: Bringing DevOps Discipline to Machine Learning Artifacts

#programming #opensource #docker #machinelearning

3 min read

Karan Verma for Docker

Apr 11

From Zero to Local LLM: A Developer's Guide to Docker Model Runner

#docker #devops #opensource #genai

4 min read

Zhang Wei

Apr 7

Copyleft Licenses: Bridging Open Source with Commercial Sustainability

#copyleft #opensource #commercialsustainability

7 min read

Apr 18

Backstage for the win!

#backstage #opensource #programming #javascript

9 min read

Mar 15

Cron Jobs in Linux: Evolution from AT to Cron to Anacron

#linux #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Apr 18

Documentation That Builds Itself with Sphinx + Read the Docs

#python #opensource #tooling #automation

1 min read

Mar 15

Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP): A New Era in AI Integration

#ai #agenticai #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Ezo Saleh

Apr 7

Self-hosting LLMs for Production Systems: Solving the Model Quality Challenge

#llm #aiagent #opensource #go

6 min read

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