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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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Cover image for DBX: An Open-Source, 15 MB Database Client for 17+ Databases (Built with Tauri)

skyler

May 2

DBX: An Open-Source, 15 MB Database Client for 17+ Databases (Built with Tauri)

#opensource #database #rust #webdev

2 min read

Cover image for I tested 4 free 70B-class LLM endpoints for real production work — here's what each is actually good at

May 2

I tested 4 free 70B-class LLM endpoints for real production work — here's what each is actually good at

#ai #llm #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Cover image for Your PostgreSQL Already Has a Graph Engine — You Just Have to Build It

Eugene

May 6

Your PostgreSQL Already Has a Graph Engine — You Just Have to Build It

#postgres #opensource #graphs #database

7 min read

Leo Laish

May 2

Why We Open-Sourced Our AI Safety Layer

#opensource #ai #security #github

4 min read

May 2

I built a free automated bell system for schools using Python and a $6 USB relay — here's how and why

#python #opensource #automation #hardware

3 min read

May 5

Quizlet is gatekeeping more and more, so i made an extension

#showdev #typescript #productivity #opensource

7 min read

Lyra

May 2

Stop Guessing Which Debian Packages Are Vulnerable: Practical `debsecan` for Host-Level CVE Triage

#linux #security #opensource #devops

5 min read

Cover image for LeafWiki Devlog #10: v0.9.0 – no more broken links, lost edits, or overwritten changes

perber

May 2

LeafWiki Devlog #10: v0.9.0 – no more broken links, lost edits, or overwritten changes

#devjournal #documentation #opensource #go

2 min read

May 2

NCT Depth Motif: Exploring Symbolic 3D Motifs for RGB-D Depth Maps

#python #computervision #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for In the Age of AI, People Still Type With Their Hands

Asher Buk

May 6

In the Age of AI, People Still Type With Their Hands

#opensource #linux #productivity #faltpak

2 min read

May 2

GhostPilot: Build a GPS-Denied Drone Navigation Stack with Visual SLAM + Agentic AI

#robotics #slam #drones #opensource

11 min read

Cover image for 30 seconds to a real diagnosis with mureo v0.8.0 demo scenarios

HIROKAZU YOSHINAGA

May 2

30 seconds to a real diagnosis with mureo v0.8.0 demo scenarios

#opensource #ai #mcp #marketing

10 min read

Cover image for fhir-dsl: a type-safe FHIR toolchain for TypeScript

Abdelhadi Sabani

May 2

fhir-dsl: a type-safe FHIR toolchain for TypeScript

#typescript #healthcare #fhir #opensource

8 min read

Cover image for Username Studio — find short Telegram usernames with a local LLM

sattop 02

May 2

Username Studio — find short Telegram usernames with a local LLM

#showdev #python #telegram #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for I Made Kimi Build Its Own Tiny Coding Team in 2 Days

dmae97

May 1

I Made Kimi Build Its Own Tiny Coding Team in 2 Days

#ai #opensource #cli #agents

3 min read

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