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Linked by Eugenia Loli on Sat 22nd Oct 2005 03:06 UTC, submitted by SilentBob4

Mad Penguin has released a lengthy review of OpenSUSE 10 complete with screenshots and Flash movie of the installation process.

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Fonts!

by IndigoJo on Sat 22nd Oct 2005 11:09 UTC

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2005-07-06

I notice he doesn't point out how badly the fonts suck, particularly the serif fonts. Letters and bits of letters squashed together, the wrong bits emphasised (like the top loop of a capital B), lack of symmetry in letters that should be symmetrical like capital Ts and Is, serifs too big for the letter, that sort of thing. Microsoft and Apple can develop decent font rendering technology, what's holding up the people responsible for it on Linux?

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RE: Fonts!

by halfmanhalfamazing on Sat 22nd Oct 2005 12:53 in reply to "Fonts!"

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2005-07-23

The only time I see/saw a problem with fonts is when I tried messing with the resolutions and hit an odd number that my monitor didn't like.

That might help you out.

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RE: Fonts!

by on Sat 22nd Oct 2005 14:30 in reply to "Fonts!"

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Microsoft and Apple can develop decent font rendering technology, what's holding up the people responsible for it on Linux?

Oh, nothing, just this little thing called "patents" and "legal threats". Or haven't you read the thing on Freetype's site about Apple and software patents?

http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html

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