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The KDE developers have KDE SC 4.8.5, released the fifth and probably last monthly update of KDE SC 4.8.

Although KDE SC 9.4 is already released, the KDE team updated once again the previous version 4.8. KDE SC 4.8.5 is focused, as always with the monthly updates of the environment and the libraries, just to bug fixes and brings no new features. It is therefore without risk, according to the developers. It is recommended for all users to upgrade their KDE 4.8.

The change log contains the most important fixes and improvements over KDE SC 4.8.4. Not included in this log are the improvements that were made in Kontact, and corrections in Dolphin. In addition, some optimizations performed and completed the translation.
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On the Storage Devices of the NAS specialist Synology users can now run Zarafa open source groupware support and sync with Outlook so that mobile devices.

The March 2012 by the German-Dutch Groupware manufacturer announced cooperation with the manufacturer of NAS systems (Network Attached Storage) Synology is bearing fruit: Previously customers had to follow lengthy instructions to access their device mails, calendars and address books on the net to provide, but since few days, there are official packages for Synology products.
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The minimalist Tiny Core Linux distribution, Linux has been released in version 4.4 and including updated versions of the packages included, bringing the kernel improvements and innovations in the handling of boot parameters.

Tiny Core 4.4 is based on a 3.0.21 kernel and runs completely in memory. The main novelty of this version in addition to an upgraded system, the advanced parameters at startup. Thus, the distribution may for example be transmitted via the parameter “iso” is the location of the ISO image embedded extensions. In addition, the distribution of a new sript “fromISOfile” which starts after the start of an ISO file. Also new is the ssb module in the base component. The kernel also has support from at ax25/ham and comes with an on kexec. In addition, the developers have fixed a crash of the kernel in the integration of CIFS shares.
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The team around Cinnamon, a fork of Gnome Shell, has released a new version. New in 1.4 are Cinnamon including a “Hot Corner”, a recruitment panel and a derivative of Alacarte Menu Editor.

Webconverger, a Debian-based Linux distribution for Internet kiosks, is available in an updated version 10.2.

The new release brings Firefox 8 as well as firmware for WLAN chips from Ralink. In addition, the developer has removed many packages, especially for browser language and spelling as well as the print service CUPS.
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The Debian project indicates that support for Debian 5.0 “Lenny” is set in February 2012. In order for the support period is scheduled to end one year after the release of the next version.

Debian 5.0 “Lenny” was the 14th February 2009 and published every few months, updated irregularly. These updates have the hardware support brought to a more current and correct serious errors. Vulnerabilities were also closed as quickly as possible with the update packages. Two years after he published his successor Debian 5.0, Debian, “6.0″ Squeeze, on 6 In February 2011 . A year later, on 6 February 2012, will discontinue the support for Lenny. This version of the distribution was therefore supports almost exactly three years. “For Debian 6.0″ Squeeze a similarly long period is planned.
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The Munich-based publisher Open Source Press is playing Santa Claus and 25 schools and educational institutions a total of 500 packages Ubuntu and Kubuntu Linux 11:04″ for free.

Open Source Press wants to support claims to the use of free software in schools. Teachers, faculty and staff of the school administration can use the entry form for Nicholas-Action (PDF), a class set of 20 copies of ” Ubuntu & Kubuntu 11:04 Request “free.

The first 25 respondents who meet the conditions for participation will be considered according to the publisher and get the package free of charge.
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he Arch Linux developers have released the distribution’s package manager Pacman in version 4.0.1, which can deal with signatures.

The lack of cryptographic signature for software packages, as is common in many Linux distributions has long been a much discussed and criticized sore spot with Arch Linux. Now Dan McGee and the other developers Pacman’s long-cherished plans are implemented. Pacman and other package tools like makepkg can now deal with signatures that prove the origin and integrity of binary packages.
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A new version Rawstudio – free converter of photos in the format Raw. For two years the program has been rewritten almost completely. Results:

• fully modular architecture
• a new processing engine, based on graphs
  Rawspeed, self-optimized library unpacking Raw with multithreading support and guidance SSE2 (more…)

Fedora Project manager Jared Smith has said in an email to a slump in the Fedora computer.

According to Smith has surprised a few days ago, a developer of the account team turned over, because he had been informed in an email about the change of its access, even though he had not made any changes. In response to these concerns was the review by the Fedora team has found that someone had misused the account, writes Smith. Although the access is not come from the ranks of the sysadmin or the release team, but the user has been authorized (Source Code Management) and SSH connections to Fedorapeople.org, push-access to the update of SCM Fedora Fedora packages.
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