Like most religions, Ubuntu has different factions among its followers. There are the die hards, the excited newbies, the evangelists, and the old-timers among others. They may vary in degrees of knowledge, experience, willingness to learn, and maturity, but they all have one thing in common: they’re all Ubuntards.

In a three-way cage match, LifeHacker threw Chrome 4, Firefox 3.5, and Opera 10 into the ring and let the three browsers duke it out to see which would emerge as the fastest app for surfing the web.

Welcome to Karmic Koala Alpha 5, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.10.

Premium Service Engineer provides support for mission-critical and complex Ubuntu environments. Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today an advanced service and support offering that gives large enterprises with complex IT environments a highly-skilled, dedicated Canonical support professional.

The VAR Guy is hanging out with 1,400 of his closest friends at Red Hat Summit and JBoss World in Chicago. Here are seven key observations from the conferences so far. Plus, guess which open source company skipped the shows.

Red Hat today officially launched an ambitious new effort called Deltacloud to help abstract away the differences between public and private cloud deployments. Oh and it's all open source too. The way that Red Hat CTO Briand Stevens explains Deltacloud, is that that it will have drivers that map onto Amazon EC@ as well as private clouds that uses VMware or Red Hat Enterprise Linux

General discussion of how Apple and Free Software are combining to put pressure on Microsoft

The market share of an OS is important. The larger the market share the more companies take notice and create software and hardware compatible for it.