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2015 was an extremely good year for open source. Enterprise customers embraced open source at an unprecedented rate. Arch rivals came together to work on shared technologies. Even Microsoft and Apple released their software as open source.

GNOME Keyring is a daemon program which caches user's secret keys, login credentials and certificates, and makes them available to other applications requesting them according to the GnuPG protocol. Essentially GNOME Keyring plays the same role as gpg-agent, but is active only within GUI desktop sessions. GNOME Keyring also implements SSH agent protocol for SSH authentication to replace ssh-agent.

In today's open source roundup: Maximalist distro Ultimate Edition 4.2.3 LTS has been released for Christmas. Plus: Are you an Android or iPhone person? And the fight for Free Software continues.

LibreOffice is one of the most important pieces of free software, allowing many of us to work, study, and share information. Although the software features many tools and capabilities, the spectrum of possible uses for each and everyone out there is so wide, that it is simply impossible to cover every special need with hotkeys and shortcuts. However, LibreOffice can be set to support user-created commands that can essentially help us increase our productivity.

Wearable electronics have exploded in the past year. Countless small devices are now on the market for not only fitness tracking, but posture improvement, sunscreen reminders, muscle-sensing gesture control, and much more. As technology on the body becomes more pervasive than ever, having open source tools for developing wearable technology is more important than ever, so that we can create the future of fashion tech while maintaining data privacy of biometric sensor data.

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Ubuntu Touch is still considered a young platform, so there aren't many native applications available for it. The guys from the unofficial app store for Ubuntu, the uApp Explorer, have put together a list of desired applications for this mobile operating system, and there are at least a few surprises among them.

This month marks a milestone for me. It's been five years since I started working in—and learning from—an open organization. read more

We've just been informed by Martin Wimpress, the main developer and leader of Ubuntu MATE, about the general availability of a spin off project from Ubuntu MATE, called Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker.

Every release the Fedora Design team collaborates with the Fedora community to release a set of 16 additional backgrounds to install and use on Fedora. The Fedora Design team takes submissions from the wider Fedora Community, then votes on the... Continue Reading →

Let's get this put to bed now: At the grade school level, girls are far and away better at most technological challenges than are boys. I've seen it for years; I've lived it for years. Where is the failure? It resides in the adults in a girl's life who tell her she shouldn't be wasting her time with computers and that she should start wearing skirts and dresses instead of jeans and that damned three button pullover shirt. Some will go so far as to point out the lack of female presence in the technology workplace as proof. Well yeah...there is a smaller female representation. That's because mommy and school career counselors are channeling her into roles "more suited to her gender" and their preconceived ideas of her abilities.

The developers behind the GnuCash Project were happy to announce this past weekend the immediate availability for download of the tenth maintenance release in the GnuCash 2.6 series.

Web Server, Database & Scripting Language are the building blocks of web based software like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and OpenCart.

The Calibre eBook reader and editor has been upgraded today and it looks like this is the last release for this year. It's not a major update, but it does come with a very important feature.

Interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read more

It seems like Mozilla is trying its hardest to alienate some of its users and has decided to provide Netflix HTML5 video support for the Windows platform only.

Vagrant 1.8 has been released. Comes with support for linked clones and snapshots.

The developers of the Debian-based SparkyLinux computer operating system had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of SparkyLinux 4.2.

The Linux Foundation's "World without Linux" series about the significance of open source software has concluded with a video clip featuring Linus Torvalds in cartoon form.

Valve is on fire and has released a new update for the Steam Beta client, continuing to fix some issues with the Steam controller and with the In-Home Streaming function.

Unfortunately, and after years of development in every part of the free software that we enjoy, there are still two primary types of software package available in GNU/Linux systems. The one is the .deb type which is used by Debian and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu, Mint, and Elementary, and the other is the .rpm type which is used by Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia, and CentOS. Fortunately, there's a workaround for this as we can try to transform the one type to the other.