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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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Jan 31

Yooooo! Whistler Lang say("Hello World!")

#discuss #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Jan 31

Masa Depan Pendidikan dan Keberlanjutan Open Source Pendahuluan Umum

#discuss #ai #learning #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for I Built a Native RTL Python GUI with Tkinter (and it actually looks good)

freerave

Feb 1

I Built a Native RTL Python GUI with Tkinter (and it actually looks good)

#showdev #python #opensource #gui

2 min read

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Mobin Valadi for Kurdistan Linux Lab | تاقیگەی لینوکسی کوردستان

Jan 30

Mastering the Linux Software Toolbox: A Professional’s Deep Dive into GNU Coreutils 9.9

#opensource #linux #kll #kurdistan

5 min read

Cover image for Rescuing Legacy Hardware: Installing Linux on Early UEFI Systems (Debian 13 Case Study)

Igor Giamoniano

Jan 31

Rescuing Legacy Hardware: Installing Linux on Early UEFI Systems (Debian 13 Case Study)

#linux #debian #opensource #learning

2 min read

Cover image for Supercheck: Open Source AI-Powered Test Automation & Monitoring Platform

Jan 29

Supercheck: Open Source AI-Powered Test Automation & Monitoring Platform

#monitoring #testing #playwright #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for TimescaleDB Compression: From 150GB to 15GB (90% Reduction, Real Production Data)

Polliog

Feb 3

TimescaleDB Compression: From 150GB to 15GB (90% Reduction, Real Production Data)

#postgres #opensource #programming #database

12 min read

Brobits

Jan 31

Brobitz - MuicPlayer

#webdev #programming #opensource #electron

1 min read

Jan 30

How I Built a Cursor Alternative That Runs in the Terminal

#vim #coding #claude #opensource

4 min read

Jan 30

bullstudio: a Prisma Studio–style dashboard for BullMQ (run it with npx)

#showdev #node #opensource #tooling

2 min read

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Miccy

Jan 30

Two Minutes Hate #1 - The awakening of the EU

#eu #opensource #regulatory

1 min read

Jan 30

Self-Hosted Workflow Automation: Exploring Open-Source n8n Alternatives

#automation #devops #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Jan 30

How I built a proactive personal AI assistant based on Moltbot for 10€ a month

#showdev #selfhosted #ai #opensource

4 min read

Rost

Jan 30

Top 23 Trending Rust Projects on GitHub - January 2026

#rust #opensource #ai #aicoding

11 min read

Rost

Jan 30

Top 19 Trending Go Projects on GitHub - January 2026

#go #opensource #ai

10 min read

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