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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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Tope Taiwo

Aug 2 '25

From Silence to Sound: Fixing Audio on Ubuntu Linux on my Samsung Galaxy Book

#linux #ubuntu #opensource #samsung

2 min read

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Aug 16 '25

How to Make Your Localhost Server Available Online

#tunneling #devops #opensource #javascript

7 min read

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Abijith B

Jun 29 '25

Introducing Ogresync: Free, Open-Source Obsidian Sync Without the Subscription

#opensource #software #obsidian #productivity

6 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 2 '25

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 1: The Problem with Traditional Spring Batch Scaling

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

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Jun 29 '25

Native Machine Learning in Dart: `ml_knn` and `ml_logistic_regression` are Live on pub.dev!

#dart #flutter #opensource #pubdev

2 min read

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Jun 29 '25

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#opensource #mcp #microsoft #beginners

1 min read

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Matteo De Micheli

Aug 2 '25

Why I Built Sounds Social with Meteor.js, React, Tailwind & Bytescale

#javascript #react #meteor #opensource

3 min read

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marcosomma

Jul 31 '25

🧠 I Didn't Know Where It Was Going. I Just Kept Going.

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #redis

3 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Aug 2 '25

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#earl #programming #opensource #learning

1 min read

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JSON0 - Speed Meets Simplicity

#java #opensource #stripe #programming

3 min read

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Aniket Raj

Aug 2 '25

RELEASING KARL DOCS

#opensource #ai #kotlin #android

2 min read

Aug 2 '25

GSoC 2025 - Week 8: Designing Serial Port Component and Real Hardware Demo

#opensource #circuitverse #arduino #gsoc2025

2 min read

Kevin B

Jul 25 '25

Byte-Vision delivers powerful Retrieval Augmented Generation by integrating Llama.Cpp and Elasticsearch's vector search.

#rag #ai #opensource #go

1 min read

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ktny

Jun 29 '25

I built a tool to visualize Claude Code activity like GitHub contributions

#cli #opensource #ai #productivity

2 min read

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Aug 2 '25

Mastering DOM Performance & Security

#webdev #programming #html #opensource

1 min read

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