On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 6:33 am, Lance Cummings wrote: > > Looking forward to doing that and reporting. Say what one will about > MS (and oh yes, a lot can be said), the fonts are not an issue. > Stuff is very readable and clean right out of the box. > Historically fonts have always been an issue for Linux. Almost all fonts are copyrighted, and so cannot be distributed without a license, and Mandrake *will not* put anything in the download edition which is not available under a GPL or similar license. Recently however the 'Vera' fonts have been released under a free license, and are quite acceptable. 9.1 was thefirst release to include the vera fonts.
The second issue is that until recently X was very bad at displaying anti aliased fonts. They would appear very jagged. Recently X has improved considerably and font display is now good. However due to Apple's patent on 'bytecode interpreting' it is not legal to distribute X in the USA with it enabled. So to improve your fonts, then install the freetype2 RPM from Texstars download area, and your fonts will look a little better. (If Texstar has been added as a urpmi source, then just use Mandrake Sofware Manager to install the RPM.) > > Okay . . . I fired up kmix immediately from an xterm: > > ERROR: kmix: Mixer cannot be found. > Please check that the soundcard is installed and that the soundcard > driver is loaded. > > Four times it said that, faster than you can bat an eye. ^_^ > > Then it produced the mixer, so it must have finally found it, or it > was just pulling my leg to see how I'd react. ^_^ > > Things seem not muted according to the mixer, but still no sound. And aumix and alsamixer did what? > Jean-Luc Ponty and Stephane Grappelli refuse to perform. ^_^ This > is a letdown of major proportion. I am opening a bottle of Chablis > to properly mourn. Are these MP3's or audio CDs? Playing audio CDs is not the same as getting system sound. There are different issues affecting audio CDs. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/audio_cd.html derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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