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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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Mar 18

Deluge vs Transmission: Torrent Clients Compared

#docker #linux #opensource #tooling

4 min read

Mar 18

File Sharing

#opensource #privacy #productivity #resources

10 min read

GXY Gomi

Mar 22

Addfox: Build Better Browser Extensions for Developers and AI

#showdev #ai #opensource #webdev

1 min read

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N2 Dev

Mar 18

Soul v5.0: Your AI Agent Now Remembers People, Hardware, and Projects Across Sessions

#ai #mcp #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Mihai Ciprian Chezan

Mar 18

I built Teukhos to wrap any CLI tool as an MCP server with just a YAML file

#mcp #opensource #python #devtools

1 min read

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Alexander Schneider

Mar 18

How to Add a Sentiment Confirmation Layer to OpenAlgo with Python

#python #trading #opensource #api

4 min read

Rabbimov Zohirbek

Mar 17

Операционная система Linux

#beginners #computerscience #linux #opensource

1 min read

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Benji377

Mar 22

OpenMusic - My first Open source project

#android #opensource #music #kotlin

2 min read

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Subrata Kumar Das

Mar 18

Building a Local RAG System with Citations (No Hallucinations)

#webdev #ai #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Matthew Diakonov

Mar 18

Build a Local-First AI Agent with Ollama - No API Keys, No Cloud, No Signup

#ai #ollama #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

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Mar 18

I Shipped 6 Upgrades to My Copilot CLI Orchestrator. The SDK Had Other Plans.

#githubcopilot #opensource #typescript #cli

9 min read

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Tucker Schreiber

Mar 18

AI agents are quietly building a tool registry for each other

#ai #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Nebula

Mar 17

Top 5 Terminal AI Coding Agents in 2026

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

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Bridge ACE

Mar 17

I Built a Fleet Manager for AI Coding Agents — Here's Why Single-Agent IDEs Aren't Enough

#ai #opensource #devtools #python

6 min read

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Sam

Mar 18

Why Your AI Agent Shouldn't See Your API Keys

#typescript #security #ai #opensource

4 min read

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