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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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Day 7 – “TOP Secret Info: Monitoring Your Linux System Like a Pro (Sorta)”

#linux #beginners #opensource #cloudwhistler

3 min read

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#ai #webdev #career #opensource

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Cross-Platform Image Viewer on Steroids: SnapSort v1.0.0

#news #opensource #python #gui

2 min read

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Meet DevTrack: The CLI Productivity Tool for Developers 🚀

#ai #productivity #python #opensource

1 min read

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Windows Lockdown Software: A Comprehensive Guide to Kiosk Mode on Windows 11

#security #kiosk #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

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Gao Dalie (Ilyass)

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#datascience #ai #opensource #llm

10 min read

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Open Ticket: The Best Self-Hosted Discord Support Bot (2026 Guide)

#discord #opensource #tickets #discordbot

3 min read

Chen Debra

May 20 '25

Extracting a General-Purpose EventBus Component from DolphinScheduler: Supporting Delayed and Event-Driven Execution

#eventdriven #apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #softwareengineering

3 min read

Raghav

Jun 22 '25

Don't Be a Foolish, Contributing to Open Source the Right Way

#opensource #programming #github #contributorswanted

5 min read

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GSoC Coding Period Week 3:

#appdev #opensource #flutter

3 min read

Zhang Wei

May 19 '25

Open Source Ecosystem Unleashed: A Deep Dive into April 2025's Key Updates

#opensource #linuxkernel #gnome

8 min read

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Open Source Spotlight: A Week of Innovation and Funding Trends in 2025

#opensource #innovation #fundingtrends

8 min read

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May 19 '25

MANAGING DATA & VOLUMES IN KUBERNETES

#devops #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

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Project NOVA: Building My Personal AI Orchestration System

#ai #mcp #opensource #docker

8 min read

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VISHNU VARDHAN REDDY

Jun 2 '25

ScrapeSome: Effortless Web Scraping for JavaScript Heavy Sites — The Developer Friendly Scraper That Just Works

#python #playwright #403 #opensource

3 min read

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