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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.

submission guidelines

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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Arindam Majumder

Apr 28

I Built an MCP Server for DevTo (100% Open Source)🎉

#mcp #devto #python #opensource

3 min read

Apr 29

I Built Dr. Headline – An Autonomous AI Agent Publishing Daily Factual Political News Briefings

#showdev #ai #opensource #civictech

2 min read

Apr 29

Bringing Python 3.10’s Pattern Matching to Python 3.7+ with Patterna

#python #productivity #opensource #learning

8 min read

xavki

Apr 29

Kubernetes : what is PV, PVC & StorageClass ??

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #containers

2 min read

Leonardo Gonçalves

Apr 29

My first library for C language

#opensource #github #c #tooling

1 min read

xavki

Apr 29

Kubernetes : deployment strategies explained

#kubernetes #containers #opensource #devops

3 min read

Apr 29

🎬 The Sysadmin Show – Episode 9: “The Curious Case of the Special Bits”

#beginners #linux #opensource #cloudwhistler

3 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 29

Scripting Series – Part 1 of 7

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Raghav

Apr 29

Introducing Nixopus - All in one Open Source VPS Management Solution

#webdev #opensource #cloud #go

7 min read

Apr 29

safeJsonParse utility in Suna, an open source generalist AI agent.

#suna #opensource #nextjs #json

3 min read

Apr 29

Universal Celestial Intelligence (UCI) - A Self-Evolving Julia Framework

#julialang #universalcelestialintelligence #programming #opensource

3 min read

Mangesh

Apr 29

#Elasticsearch # 🚀 Why Elasticsearch May Block When Updating Large Indexes — And How To Fix It

#opensource #elasticsearch #dba

3 min read

Apr 28

I vibe coded this simple sticky todo notes app

#javascript #webdev #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

Prog. Kanishk Raj

Apr 29

Kickstart Your Web Projects with ProXtyle: A Lightweight CSS Framework

#webdev #css #framework #opensource

1 min read

Amna Anwar for PullFlow

Apr 29

🤖 AI Agents in Open Source: Evolving the Contribution Model

#programming #ai #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Quy Vu

Apr 28

Introduce a new way of distributed data mapping-OfX

#dotnet #programming #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 29

Changing Ownership in Linux: Mastering the chown Command

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

VASHANTHA KUMAR K.S

Apr 28

🚀 Docker Image Creation and Pushing to DockerHub: Step-by-Step Guide

#webdev #tutorial #devops #opensource

2 min read

Milkah S

Apr 28

Paid Open Source Internships for Students (Remote, 2025)

#beginners #career #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Oleksandr Dehtiarov

Apr 28

Telegram Mini Apps: Key Trends and Business Opportunities for 2025

#opensource #telegram #api

6 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 28

Linux Boot Process

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

4 min read

Daniel Davis for TrustGraph

Apr 28

Part 3: How TrustGraph's Knowledge Cores End the Memento Nightmare

#ai #aiops #opensource #rag

3 min read

Prog. Kanishk Raj

Apr 29

Introducing ProXtyle: A Professional & Modern CSS Framework

#webdev #opensource #css #proxtyle

1 min read

Apr 28

🚀 Live Chat Support Starter Kit — Open Source!

#opensource #nextjs #socketio #webdev

1 min read

Webb

Apr 28

The Fread Project is Now Open Source, Based on Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform

#programming #opensource #kotlin #android

2 min read

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