Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 25th Mar 2003 03:25 UTC
OSNews was privileged to an early access to the final version of Mandrake Linux 9.1 Standard Edition and we were able to test it for almost a week now. Here is our review. Update: Added four screenshots. Update 2: Mandrake Linux 9.1 is out, read the PR, get it from mirrors, buy it or join the Club, from links found here.
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While Helvetica and Arial are almost the same font, X11 has three or four different font rendering engines in it, depending on configuration, if I'm remembering right (bitmap, an early outline font variant, TrueType, and PostScript Type 1). Similar fonts generated by different engines--or even the same font generated by different engines--can look radically different. I remember having a FreeBSD 4.x installation that came with Lucida and Lucidux fonts; even though Lucidux was the cheap knockoff font (really), it looked better on X. (This was before any attempts at anti-aliasing under X had gone mainstream.)
(Yes, almost the same font, but not quite. Helvetica is a classic font from Linotype; Arial was developed by the Monotype foundry by taking an earlier font of theirs and modifying the letter proportions to match Helvetica's.)
On a geek note, I'd second or third the suggestion to not use JPEGs for screenshots. I remember Eugenia's defense of this due to file sizes, and I understand, but the degredation in quality can get really noticeable--and that's bad mojo for a site whose reviews focus so much on interfaces. I think you'd honestly be better off using a PNG or an adaptive palette GIF, even if the file size increases.