ubuntu goes prime-time in US

[Niran Babalola]

On 4/14/05, Neilen Marais <nmarais at snowisp.com> wrote:
> Although, certainly, fonts under free OSes are much much more deuglified
> now than they were not too many years ago.... Now we only need to wait
> for the Apple patents to expire :)

I remember having to go through the Font Deuglification HOWTO[0] to
get fonts to look decent in Linux a few years ago, so I definitely
sympathize with the girl who said that in the TV show.

On 4/14/05, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> When is this going to happen ? I am getting bored with the blurry fonts
> on Linux, I am starting to become very critical and would like as sharp
> a picture as possible.

With the fonts set at maximum smoothing and hinting in the GNOME Font
Preferences dialog, the fonts are deifnitely not blurry for me.
Personally, I like the way the fonts look with maximum smoothing and
no hinting, so that's what I use. Try running "dpkg-reconfigure
fontconfig" and then setting the hinting and smoothing to maximum in
GNOME after restarting X or the whole computer.

- Niran

[0] http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/FDU/index.html