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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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Sharon

May 19 '25

Why SafeLine Might Be the Best Open Source WAF You Haven’t Tried Yet

#websecurity #waf #opensource #devops

2 min read

Jun 13 '25

Django Interview Questions & Key Concepts – Part 4

#programming #python #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Tom

Jun 13 '25

Snippai: An AI-Powered Screenshot Tool to Replace Snagit, Snipaste, and ShareX

#ai #javascript #productivity #opensource

2 min read

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Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

May 29 '25

A Step-by-Step Guide to Install DeepSeek-R1-0528 Locally with Ollama, vLLM or Transformers

#deepseek #openai #ai #opensource

10 min read

Ty North

Jun 16 '25

You Don't Need TypeScript. You Need Runtime Guarantees.

#typescript #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

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Sriharsha Donthireddy

Jun 13 '25

What Are LLMs? Why They’re a Dev’s Superpower for Coding and Beyond

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #futurechallenge

2 min read

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Simone Morellato

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#kubernetes #devops #opensource

4 min read

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Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jun 16 '25

How to Install and Run MiniCPM 4.0 8B Locally

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #tutorial

7 min read

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#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

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baxtiyor qurbonnazarov

May 18 '25

Looking for help with my DevConnect project!

#webdev #programming #collabrator #opensource

1 min read

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Deep Shah

Jun 16 '25

ClaraVerse: The Open-Source AI Powerhouse That Might Just Dethrone OpenWebUI

#opensource #ai #openwebui #claraverse

2 min read

Jun 16 '25

How to Install GeoServer Extensions the Right Way

#geoserver #gis #opensource #webgis

2 min read

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Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jun 16 '25

Transform Documents and Images into Markdown & HTML with Nanonets-OCR-s

#markdown #html #ai #opensource

7 min read

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EvoAgentX

Jun 13 '25

🍦 Tired of Your API Tokens Melting Like Ice Cream? EvoAgentX Now Supports Local LLMs!

#programming #ai #opensource #api

1 min read

Jun 16 '25

`insecureHash` function in langchainjs source code.

#opensource #langgraph #langchain

2 min read

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