Are you SURE that they changed it due to other language requirements? Hmmmm.... a quick check on Google and I think this is the REAL reason:
"...Here's another horrifying example, an aspect of American culture, the-the pussification, the continued. the continued pussification of the American Unix user in the form of gigantic TellyTubbie WOKE screen fonts. What the f*ck is going on here? Unix Terminal used to mean something. It stood for Unix ASCII attitude; grimy outlaws in their sweaty mamas full of beer and crank, rolling around on Sparcs, looking for a good time - destroying property, raping teenagers, and killing policemen. all very necessary activities by the way. But now? TellyTubbie WOKE screen fonts and this soft shit obviously didn't come from hardcore Unix ASCII users; it came from these weekend users, these fraudulent two-day-a-week motherf*ckers who have their x86s trucked into Sturgis, South Dakota for the big rally and then noodle around like they just came in off the road. Dentists and bureaucrats and pussy-boy software designers getting up on a x86 cause they think it makes them cool. Well hey skeezics, you ain't cool, you're f*cking chilli and chilli ain't never been cool..." RIP Carlin. These last 15 years have been much less colorful without you. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Keith Lofstrom Sent: Thursday, December 7, 2023 11:45 PM To: PLUG <[email protected]> Subject: [PLUG] MATE terminal fonts, mediawiki progress Ending a long ramble on plug-talk, I kvetched: --------------------------------------------------------- It would be great to work with collaborators who can help me upgrade that server to Debian Bookworm and the web pages to mediawiki. --------------------------------------------------------- I got MATE Terminal and mediawiki working on the new Bookworm machine. 1) MATE Terminal spaced lines too far apart vertically. I've used 11 point Monospace Regular on Redhat derivatives for years, also on Debian Bullseye. The transition from Debian 11 Bullseye to Debian 12 Bookworm changed the line pitch for Monospace Regular from 17px to 22px, way too much whitespace for me, displaying too few lines of text on my ancient 1024x1280 pixel displays. The reason for the distro font change was that it allowed more room for non-Roman characters and other languages. The fix is changing to DejaVu Sans Mono Book 11; back to 17px line space, with characters that look the same as Monospace Regular. ---- 2) mediawiki install problems - that was caused by using a different database/install directory than standard. It works with /var/www/html/mediawiki, the html setup script failed for me (near the end of setup) when I tried using a different path to a different disk partition (mostly to simplify backups). Fortunately, I can achieve the same backup organization with symlinks. 2a) next step, wikifarm Keith L. -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
