Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >>> Why is it that nevada has far more fonts installed then opensolaris? >> >> Licenses, redistributability, removal of unnecessary fonts, X servers, >> etc. >> >> I've never missed the additional ones myself... > > LiberationSerif, Dejavu and Luxim are the ONLY truetype fonts. That is > not enough. Nevada does a far better job at this time. You may not have > missed them. I do, because a lot of websites use (windows) ttf's. And I > want the fonts in OpenOffice too. That way the dox of the people I work > with (using windows) look the same on my computer. > > Luckely it is easy enough to copy the fonts. However, I don't get this > difference between nevada-b111 and opensolaris-b111.
If I remember correctly, Sun had to pay royalties for shipping some fonts and only they could redistribute them. Remember that one of the goals of the new OpenSolaris distribution was to be completely redistributable. I suspect Sun will offer more fonts, etc. to paying customers or possibly through registering for them via the extras repository. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
