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These tools are effectively led by the Mozilla Foundation, whose technology now appears in many different browser and non-browser products.

Positioning options for paragraph styles in OOo.

Epiphany is the GNOME web browser, based on the mozilla rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.

For years, Linux was feared to be synonymous with immature products, inadequate support, limited applications and a fragmented market, said Mohamed Cassojee, Oracle SA strategy advisor, on day two of Brainshare Africa 2004 at the Sandton Convention Centre.

Here are excerpts from a recent one-on-one interview with Red Hat CEO Matt Szulik.

Mad Penguin have finally released their Fedora Core 2 review and its a surprisingly balanced article which gives the thumbs up to Fedora Core 2 as "an excellent distribution, which is easy to use, fast, stable and professional". They cover Fedora Core 2 in the most detail of any of the recent reviews regarding Fedora Core 2 and examine a wide range of aspects of the system from the supposed "Multimedia Issue" to the growing user community around Fedora Core.

A bug in the recent release of the Fedora Linux distribution causes the geometry of a hard disk, as reported in the partition table, to be altered during installation, according to a message posted to the Fedora developers mailing list.

I'm proud to announce that the Unofficial Fedora FAQ has been updated for the release of Fedora Core 2! All the questions on the site should now be accurate for FC2, and the yum.conf has been modified and tested for FC2. During the update, almost all the questions in the FAQ have been tweaked for accuracy, clarity, and simplicity.

As I sit before my new installation of Fedora Core 2 (FC2) I'm reminded of the first time I had to put down a beloved dog. FC2 suffers from some fatal flaws. For most people, it will be best to put this malformed whelp out of its misery and wait for the Fedora Project's next litter of pups, which promises some awesome powers.

Is Fedora a viable option? And for whom? Anxious to answer some burning questions, we doffed the Red Hat and donned a Fedora to find out just how well the new hat fits.

This is where Novell's new Linux strategy comes in. We know that the open-source/Linux community is making large inroads into corporate IT.

As I sit before my new installation of Fedora Core 2 (FC2) I'm reminded of the first time I had to put down a beloved dog. FC2 suffers from some fatal flaws. For most people, it will be best to put this malformed whelp out of its misery and wait for ...

JBoss Inc. will get no more opportunity to criticize and otherwise slap around its competitors on TheServerSide.com, after the site's parent company charged Friday that JBoss employees were posting inflammatory messages in its community forum under "anonymous and bogus names."

Back in one of the very first issues of Linux Magazine (September 1999, available online at http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-09/perl_03.html), I wrote about the Spew language. Given a description of text, sentences, and paragraphs, Spew generates random prose based on that description. The grammar is specified using a simple BNF-like format, with extensions to give weighting to more-favored choices.

This accelerating innovation is another reason we think this will 2004 will prove a pivotal year for open source and open standards in general.