Linked by Robert Escue on Wed 2nd Mar 2005 22:28 UTC
Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris The vast majority of operating system reviews are the result of a user spending a few days or weeks using a particular operating system and writing about their observations. This review is the result of my continued use of Solaris 10 (previously Solaris Express) from August 2003 to February 2005.
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Ugly Fonts
by Anonymous on Wed 2nd Mar 2005 23:12 UTC

Like most Linux distributions these days the fonts in JDS3 are very blurred and smoothed. Turning antialiasing off produces jagged and barely readable fonts. I don't understand why the whole Unix family (except Mac OS X where you can turn off antialiasing and fonts do still look good) has such awful fonts. The situation was much better with Helvetica and friends but unfortunately Helvetica looks as awful as Vera Sans under JDS3. Very bad indeed.