From the Open Source Conference (OSCON), held these days in Portland Orengon, USA. UU., Canonical announced the launch of a virtual appliance DB2 Express-C to run on Ubuntu and along its computing platform in the cloud.

DB2 Express-C is a free version of the renowned manager DB2 relational database which may be appropriate for small and medium enterprises. How well it works on Ubuntu? To answer this question, Canonical also announced that IBM has successfully completed validation of the full version of DB2 on Ubuntu 4.10 Long Term Support Server Edition.

Via: Bitelia

Google algorithm is updated once a day, we know that Google is constantly making changes to its algorithm. Formerly this was in what became known as the Google Dance, where all the SERPS are rearranged and assigned new ratings to the pages (so-called green stick). Now the update is done daily and pagerank massive changes and are somewhat less common.

But it's interesting with the video that I am today where Matt Cutts, an engineer, and all-mighty SEO, Google, focused on improving Google Search, reveals some interesting aspects regarding the changes to its search engine algorithm. Read the rest of this entry »

What Gnome 3 is packed with new features (minimalism, optimization ....) Is more than known. Since Linus Torvalds made good KDE (Another of the many desktop environments for linux) Gnome progress has been made the subject of a growing community of users happy with its implementation and sponsored by Canonical and Ubuntu, which helps them with their giant community beta testers.

As has already been published departure dates and progress of the next versions and in turn the final departure of Gnome 3:

• May 5 - GNOME 2.31.1 unstable
• May 26 - GNOME 2.31.2 unstable
• June 9 - GNOME 2.31.3 unstable
• June 30 - GNOME 2.31.4 unstable
• July 14 - GNOME 2.31.5 unstable
• August 18 - GNOME version 2.31.1990 beta
• September 1 - GNOME version 2.31.1991 beta
• 15 day of September - 02/31/1992 GNOME release candidate
• September 27 - GNOME 3.0.0 Stable version

via: Bitelia

UbuntuOne Music Store (beta), is a store where you can buy songs in MP3 format to 320Kb / s without any restrictions (DRM) from Rhythmbox.

For the time is available for those using the Beta 1 for Ubuntu 10.04. The store to be integrated into Rhythmbox no need to install any additional supplement can be used. Accepted payment methods are credit / debit cards, Paypal and Click & Buy.
The music you download will be automatically stored in a special folder on our account UbuntuOne from where we will have to taste.

Official announcement here

Source: elsoftwarelibre.