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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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Luthfi Khusyasy

May 11

Local LLM Model on Intel Iris Xe using Ollama

#ai #tutorial #opensource #agents

3 min read

kyriewen

May 11

Image Harvest v1.0.2: Internationalization, Free Pro Trial & Quality-of-Life Improvements

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Nic Lydon

May 10

It’s Not Just the College Kids

#ai #opensource #programming #architecture

4 min read

Siddharth Singh

May 11

Aurora Actions: User-Defined Background Automations for Incident Response

#sre #devops #ai #opensource

10 min read

May 10

ProxyFace: Give Your AI a Face & Emotions (100% Local, Zero Telemetry)

#showdev #ai #llm #opensource

2 min read

Naveen

May 11

Configuring a Custom “From” Email Address in Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)

#opensource #architecture #oracle

2 min read

May 10

Pipelock Agent Egress Control: the missing CI primitive for AI agents

#security #ai #opensource #mcp

3 min read

May 11

MCP Solved Tool Access. Tool Selection Is Still Unsolved

#mcp #ai #agents #opensource

4 min read

Noel Paul

May 10

I Built a Desktop App That Fixes Linux Dual-Boot Folder Access in One Click

#linux #rust #opensource #react

2 min read

Noel Paul

May 10

I Built a Desktop App That Fixes Linux Dual-Boot Folder Access in One Click

#linux #rust #opensource #react

2 min read

Mikhail Sapunov

May 10

Weekend Experiment: Free Qwen as a Personal API. Here Is What Actually Happened.

#webdev #python #opensource #learning

4 min read

xaip-agent

May 11

Receipts before AI tool calls

#ai #agents #mcp #opensource

2 min read

Serhii

May 10

I shipped Filament Studio 1.3.0, and it is the first version that feels AI-ready

#laravel #filament #opensource #buildinpublic

2 min read

May 10

I built a self-hosted REST API client for my projects, here's why

#webdev #opensource #laravel #postman

1 min read

Berat61

May 10

Linting translation files before they break the UI

#opensource #i18 #tooling #github

2 min read

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