Nuclos is by its manufacturer Novabit marketed as professional open source. According Novabit Nuclos in Germany has been more widespread than most competitors and is also free mature. It is aimed at companies that want to break away from dependence on ERP software, and will now be in many small and medium businesses, government agencies and corporations in productive use.

Like most ERP systems must also Nuclos prior to the application tailored to the needs of the company or the authority to use it. Accordingly, is a Nuclos ERP Toolkit that allows ERP applications, designated Nuclets be created.

The new version 3.10 brings, according to the manufacturer a great innovation. These are comprehensive functions for data migration from other systems in Nuclos. Such functions are commonly referred to as ETL tools (Extraction-Transformation-Loading). It will allow you to migrate data from legacy systems and the acquisition and processing of third-party systems that facilitate, for example, shops, or systems of partners and suppliers, significantly. The functionality itself is complex, because it needs to provide a variety of options to customize the data during import to Nuclos. This allows to reshape content before reading it based on value lists and make resizing, merging or data validation. The rules for this can by the user, such as the manufacturer writes, are defined without any restrictions.

Other new features in 3.10 are Nuclos the support of Java 7 and improved print management. The download of Nuclos 3.10 is free after registration possible. The system is under the AGPLv3.0 and is part of the Open Source Integration Initiative .The upgrade of existing systems to Nuclos 3.10 can be done with an installer.

OwnDMS is a document management system that can be hosted by the users, either on rented servers or on private computers. The implemented with MySQL and PHP program is under the free license GPLv3 and is currently at version 0.5. It is, according to the developer Jan Novak still in the alpha phase, but already functional.

Reason for the development of ownDMS according to Jan Novak was the desire not to give data to the cloud or to external service providers. In addition, the software should be as easy to use, so that everyone can deal with it.

ownDMS presented with a web interface through which the documents can be uploaded.If a scanner is available, documents can also be scanned and uploaded directly what the Linux-scan system SANE is used. It is likely the biggest difference to other solutions such as LetoDMS exist. The MySQL database manages the meta-information for each document. The actual documents are saved not in the database, but the file system.

The system is designed from the outset to multiple users in different roles and multilingualism. Currently the languages German and English are available. Found in documents is supported, you can search by different criteria and terms in a subset or all documents.

Testers can download the latest version of ownDMS from SourceForge download . An Android client for ownDMS is planned to photograph documents with the built-in camera and upload them directly to.

A brief overview of the major changes:

• Replacing User-level threads pthreads on nuclear rthreads thread with full utilization of all cores on multiprocessor systems.
• Support for hibernation (hibernation aka suspend-to-disk) on i386-devices.
• Nginx and SQLite added to the base system.
• Performance improvements 10Gbit network cards.
• Increased the default size of the initial window of TCP connections (draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd).
• IPv6 support in almost all network programs base system.
• Improvements in OpenSMTPD – future replacement Sendmail.
• Various improvements to the packet filter pf.
• SSLv2 is excluded from the library OpenSSL.
• OpenSSH 6.1.
• Support R4k R10k families of processors and SGI platforms.
• Go programming language has been added to the ports collection.
• New song Aquarela do Linux! problems Linux distro-centrism.

And much, much more …

A full list of changes and bundled with the program is available on the page of the project.

The KDE team has the second update of KDE SC 4.9 released. KDE SC 4.9.2 is focused, as always in the monthly updates of the environment and the libraries entirely on fixing bugs and brings no new features. It is therefore risk according to the developers. It is recommended that all users update their KDE 4.9.

To KDE 4.9.2 is no changelog. According to the developer were significant errors in the PIM suite Kontact, the Dolphin file manager, plasma and other components fixed. Furthermore, the development platform has been improved in some respects, affecting several programs. In addition, some improvements have been made and added the translations.

In the KDE bug tracking system can be found also still more changes . It should be noted, however, that the list only includes corrections of reported errors and therefore does not represent a complete change log. The full changes are only visible from the logs of the source control systems Git and SVN.

KDE SC 4.9.2 is available as source code on the KDE server. Binary packages for various distributions can be found on the download page or from your distributor. Further information can be the information page for KDE SC 4.9.2 refer.

For the first time, the software can also BIND name server (version 9.5) monitor. The indication contains seven graphs, for about one-and outbound requests and memory consumption. A revision of the curves for hard disks and file systems have experienced, they can now take any number of monitored elements. For Debian and Ubuntu, there is a new init script, and for the first time the software is also for NetBSD.

Monitorix is ​​written in Perl and consists of a daemon, and a CGI script for the Web interface. The tool monitors system information, such as storage, processes, temperature and network traffic as well as services such as SSH, Samba, IMAP, POP3, web servers and MySQL. For more information contact the Monitorix website . There is version 2.6.0 as a source tarball and in packages for Red Hat-based distributions, as Gentoo ebuild and the BSD port. The software is licensed under the GPLv2.

Only one in seven graphs from the new Monitorix module for BIND.

SOUND – kernel level audio Next Generation says on a website that has published an unknown author. The author is dissatisfied with the separation between kernel drivers (ALSA or OSS4) and audio routers like PulseAudio or JACK. He contrasts the new audio system, low latency, full latency compensation and provides the routing of audio streams between endpoints, and there are at the end points of view of applications do not distinguish between hardware and processes.

The reason for the design of a new audio system for the author that the existing systems have problems with the latency and the synchronization of audio and video. The audio processing belong to the kernel, because even latency of 4 ms, the sound effects heard. After all, he admits that the current separation between kernel and user processes in spite of the necessary context switching works quite well, at least as long as only a few processes involved. For professional applications, however, he sees the limits are reached.

SOUND will also increase the level of abstraction for applications. The author believes that the existing systems such provide only the ALSA hardware interface for the applications. This is comparable to that network would have to construct applications, the TCP packets themselves, to be sent over the network.

The author sees the audio mainly as a routing problem where the sources and sinks must be connected. Audio applications will work with audio, simply by opening a file descriptor, this with ioctl configure and read and write to make inputs and outputs. This is essentially the API OSS4 (now the free Open Sound System). But according to the author OSS4 provides no power management, making it unusable for mobile devices, and no MIDI. SOUND is to contain it all.

SOUND is according to the author in development, but it is still too unstable and experimentally for the first publication. The publication is intended as a free software once it is stable in the broad and a native driver for HD audio chips from Intel is ready. The author would like to introduce the system later in the kernel, but would need new drivers for all audio chips can be written. Perhaps it would not even have much work to deduce this from the existing driver for ALSA or OSS, but for predictions, it is too early.

The sets in PHP 5 and MySQL implemented the software security as a priority. Therefore, it validates all input and output strictly and adopt measures to prevent attacks from cross site request forgery (CSRF), perhaps with the help of random tokens and spelling. The hostile takeover of sessions designed to prevent, among other things, the examination of the IP address of the client. In addition, CMS uses the RBAC (Role Based Access Control) order.

The software is licensed under GPLv3. For more information, and version 1.2 as a source tarball can be found on the SCMS website . A demo installation is to try it too.

Among the approved maintainers marked Ronald McGrath, Ryan Arnold, Maxim somersaults, Joseph Myers, O’Donnell and Carlos Alexandre Oliva. It is noteworthy, but not in the list Dreppera Ulrich, which is marked on the site as the most influential Glibc developer, responsible for receiving patches and support of the project. The announcement of the dissolution of the committee expressed gratitude to Ulrich Drepperu for his contribution to Glibc, but not included in the new team of maintainers, due to his departure from Red Hat and the company can not spend much time on the project (work in RedHat Glibc meant spending the whole working time).

In MariaDB 5.3 is the first version of the 5.3-series, occur in no more known bugs and is assessed as stable enough for production systems. The developers mainly corrected errors, so there are only a few new features. These counters are for the Multi-Range Read-and-index condition pushdown optimization.

The DBMS is different from MySQL in particular because of the many additional storage engines such as Aria (formerly known as Mary), XtraDB, PBXT, FederatedX, OQGRAPH, and SphinxSE IBMDB2I. Various optimizations are MariaDB help to better performance. In addition to faster subqueries and joins are also DBUG improvements, optimized disk accesses and thread pooling. MariaDB times can also dissolve microseconds and user authentication check against various external systems.

MariaDB was initiated by the MySQL founder Michael “Monty” Widenius and can easily replace existing MySQL installations. All of MySQL known commands, interfaces, libraries, and APIs are included in MariaDB. If the change once completed, and MariaDB-specific functionality is used, it is not quite eifach to return to MySQL. MariaDB is licensed under the GPLv2, and on its web site to download offered. In addition to the source code and binary packages for various Linux distributions, Solaris and MS Windows are available.

Linux From Scratch (LFS) does not represent a distribution rather than a guide to creating a GNU / Linux system from source in the form of a document. The book shows in a step-by-step guide on how to create a Linux-only system on the basis of source packages, and would so give you a deep insight into the structure and procedures of the operating system. In addition, many LFS provides necessary knowledge to create a Linux system to very different requirements, such as in the embedded space to adapt.

The installation of the system is connected accordingly with relatively little effort and time. All sources of the system must be manually downloaded and translated by the instruction. The main advantage of Linux From Scratch lies in learning how the Linux system. The same applies to the configuration. The drawback here is the high cost, which entails an investment to get a running system. The adjustment to their own needs and the use of new programs will require additional work. Although the user after reading the book will receive a fully running Linux operating system, LFS is therefore understood not as a stand-alone Linux distribution. Rather, LFS provides the recipe for building on to develop as its own Linux distribution.

LFS 1.7 was updated to the latest state of the art and contains many updated software packages like the kernel 3.2.6, GCC 4.6.2 compiler suite and udev 181 revisions of the text in terms of clarity and accuracy. Further instructions were included in the various patches, the team provides for different packages. Among other things, the team offers a correction, which fixes a crash in conjunction with dlopen (). Were removed, however no longer needed fixes for bash 4.2, coreutils and GCC version 4.6.1.

The current book is available in different formats downloaded online or to be considered . In addition to the actual book creators offer in separate archives for the boot scripts and dev files for download.