Atul Sowani wrote: >A lot of people are indeed going for slackware 8.1! > > What do Slackware doe for improving the fonts? >On 17 Jul 2002 10:40 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > >u> I'm reading this article on OSNews: >u> >u> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1365 >u> >u> One of the comments says this: >u> >u> ######################################### >u> The real problem has not been the lack of AA but the pathetic fonts >u> included with a lot of distros. ie Redhat 7.3 (and I'll never forgive >u> them for this) had the worst fonts possible. Using Mozilla was a > > To my knowledge Red Hat used the same fonts everyone else used. There quiality of free fonts (free cost AND free redistribution) is the problem. Some have added scripts to download some non-free fonts for you (like M$-web-fonts) but that not a solution. We need some professional font designers to get involved with free software, to match the professional programmers we have :) >u> nightmare. And the fix? All you had to do was reorder the font list in >u> XF86Config. If that's how seriously they don't take their distribution, >u> then I'll go elsewhere thanks. >u> ########################################## >u> >u> I have to admit, the author has a point. Someone should consider more >u> sriously the problem of the fonts. > Chek out the current Red Hat beta, Limbo. It's has a lot of font changes. -Thomas _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
