On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Robert E. Raymond wrote: > > 1. Mozilla -- If you want the latest, you will have problems with > > Flash (the one from Macromedia did not work when I tried it some > > months back. May be fixed by now though) and Java (Using Sun, > > Blackdown or IBM? Remember that for the Plug-In to work, you need the > > glibc 3.x compiled version-- that rules out IBM, and you may need to > > add LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 as an environment variable) > > > Yup, I see this. I didn't have any problem getting the 1.4 RPM from > rawhide working on either the laptop or the destkop, but he still > doesn't have java on his desktop ;)
A word of warning. Redhat's mozilla RPMs are a PoS. They do some truly evil unintuitive things with mouse text highlighting that will slowly drive you mad. I ended up removing their mozilla altogether, and installing the official binary tarball. > > 3. Fonts -- yeah, it looks really crappy when you first install Red > > Hat. Better get the Subpixel font positioning thing working, or reduce > > the size till Anti-Alising doesn't kick in, but it fonts don't look > > jaggy or blurry. > > > Believe it or not, the fonts looked great! Maybe it's the 1400x1050 res. > tho... Fonts in RH9 are gorgeous, or at least ISO-8859-1. Perhaps the asian charsets aren't anti-aliased like the western ones? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
