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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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Leanid Herasimau

Oct 16 '25

Ghost 6.0: Distributed Publishing, Built-in Analytics, and $100 Million for Independent Authors

#news #analytics #writing #opensource

3 min read

Volodymyr

Nov 5 '25

Why We're Moving SecureBit.chat to Tauri v2 — The Future of Decentralized P2P Communication

#tauri #webrtc #security #opensource

3 min read

Tam Le

Oct 13 '25

Hash Checker – A Lightweight Cross-Platform File Integrity Verification Tool

#opensource #crossplatform #rust #tooling

2 min read

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Sherin Joseph Roy

Nov 13 '25

Sharing My Little Experiment: Code Genie – A Simple Open-Source Tool to Help with Code Ideas

#opensource #ai #coding #aicoding

2 min read

Nov 5 '25

Launching Project Starter Guide

#resources #devops #automation #opensource

1 min read

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Sara Han for Pruna AI

Nov 17 '25

Introducing Pruna 0.3.0 - The Upgrade You’ve Been Waiting For

#news #opensource #ai #machinelearning

3 min read

Oct 13 '25

Visualizing Trust in Multi-Agent Systems — The Swarm-ISM-X Public Demo (v2)

#showdev #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

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Emmanuel Aiyenigba

Nov 17 '25

Build a Calorie Estimation App With Vision Agents

#agents #ai #opensource #tutorial

13 min read

Nov 15 '25

From Desktop Frustration to Internet Standard in 3 Months

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Cover image for The State of Apache Iceberg, Polaris, and Arrow: October–November 2025

Nov 5 '25

The State of Apache Iceberg, Polaris, and Arrow: October–November 2025

#news #dataengineering #database #opensource

7 min read

Thiago Massari Guedes

Nov 17 '25

Compiling Window Maker in a Debian-based OS

#linux #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

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Nov 16 '25

From Problem to Product 🤔 : School Library Tracking System with Laravel v📚💻!

#webdev #laravel #opensource #programming

2 min read

Cover image for Frontend Devs: Weaponize Beauty. Build UIs That Command Respect

Nov 14 '25

Frontend Devs: Weaponize Beauty. Build UIs That Command Respect

#frontend #opensource #webdev #cybersecurity

9 min read

Oct 13 '25

A DNS server that offers useful utilities and services over the DNS protocol.

#showdev #go #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

Cover image for Feature Release 0.54.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

Nov 5 '25

Feature Release 0.54.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

#opensource #githubaction #release

1 min read

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