Based on RichardNeill's June 2009 script:
[ ! -f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/tahoma.ttf -o ! -f
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/tahomabd.ttf ]
wget
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/50529/+attachment/2385660/+files/Tahoma_Test.zip
unzip -j -LL
Ah, here we go! I won an eBay auction for ODE97 and here's a trial run
of an installer that will give any Windows 95 computer the Tahoma font!
^_^ Oh and if you happen to download this 922 KB *gratis
redistributable* onto a Linux machine and unzip it and install the two
fonts, there's not much
Daniel Hanson: Unfortunately, WoG is proprietary and so Launchpad
probably will not be the place to resolve your issue, but I am finding
that on my daughter's machine I'm having problems getting it top work
with Ubuntu 10.10 when it didn't have problems with earlier Ubuntu
versions.
The log file
Oh, hey, I got it working; turning off the visual effects (wobbly
windows, etc.) seems to let the game run on my daughter's system.
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Title:
World
After reading ODE97: Creating Run-Time Applications for Microsoft
Excel, Microsoft Word, or Microsoft PowerPoint on
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/163410/EN-US it really does sound like
we can create a basic installer using ODE97 (after installing SR2 to get
the newest file versions available)
Just to document another source of Tahoma and Tahoma Bold: Office 97 Service
Release 2b (23 MB)
https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=ENid=10791
cabextract does the trick, but it's only for computers with validly licensed
copies of Office, of course, and probably not
https://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1806
Products that supply this font
One wonders if there are demos for some of those that are smallish and
redistributable...
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The trial version of Money 99 (note
http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/news2/microsoft-offers-money-99
-trial-for-download) originally
http://msdownload.microsoft.com/msdownload/money99/trial/x86/en/moneyweb.exe
but I found a copy on http://downloads.5star-
network.com/Homehob/moneyweb.exe (via
Public bug reported:
I found an awesome little GPL v2 GUI Python app that lets you crop JPEG
images lossessly (that is to say, without the need for recompression)
called CropGUI:
http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01248401946
more info: http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01235516977
Still running
FWIW, this bug affects the Toshiba Satellite A25-S207 running Lucid
attempting to connect to a WEP network; renaming the two agere bin files
in /lib/firmware/ and restarting did the trick. Thank you!
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Jan Murre: thread is wrong; usb-creator makes FAT32 and motherboards
that support usb thumb drive booting accept that just fine.
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speaking of mono-dependent apps, gbrainy is being added for Lucid.
Also, for anyone finding this bug and testing Lucid, add Stéphane Scot's
PPA:
ppa:stephane-chloste/ppa
and install the remove-mono package
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 334170 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334170
This is not quite a duplicate of Bug #334170; I would describe this as a
whishlist bug for something like the GStreamer approach, where it lets
you select it, warns you (if necessary, say for exFAT that may
Note: in Karmic, dosfstools is now suggested.
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Also, based on some trial and error, xfsdump should be added to the
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Ack! I'm getting bitten by this bug too:
$ sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb /home/conrad/Desktop/temp
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail
So I just noticed in Karmic when I tried to run:
$ su-to-root -X gak
The program 'su-to-root' is currently not installed. You can install it by
typing:
sudo apt-get install menu
Indeed, installing the package menu resolves the error (though doesn't
get it working on my system, but that's
AFAIK, in a default install, yes, it's just tomboy and f-spot... Ubuntu
by default offers to install recommended packages, but you can opt out,
so yes, maybe recommend gnote and gthumb instead of suggest.
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Stéphane Scot: Awesome!
Do you think it would be a good idea to have suggested packages in
mononono?
e.g. gnote, gthumb, etc.
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On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Faldegast faldeg...@hotmail.com
wrote:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1
Internet Explorer have dropped to below 65 % from 70% in the end of December.
If this continues it means that they will pass 50% market share in less then
Sebastien Bacher:
- Why do you ignore the fact that those discussions have already taken place
on a list? Is it because the answer that was concluded there (two years
ago!) was not the one you wanted to hear?
- Why do you ignore the fact that Ubuntu does sometimes make changes from
upstream?
lot of menu items use the same naming scheme (gedit is Text Editor
for example), the rational is that the entry without a name is
implicitely the default software for this category, other softwares have
their names to make clear they are a different choice
VLC, Mplayer and Gxine are important
Sebastien Bacher: please stop setting the status to Invalid; just
because upstream will not fix, doesn't mean that Ubuntu shouldn't,
especially since ubuntu-devel-discuss decided that it *is* a problem for
Ubuntu. Also, PLEASE stop repeating yourself; your objection regarding
upstream was already
Sebastien Bacher wrote on 2009-06-03: that's not a bug and should
rather be discussed on a mailing list if you disagree
??? This *WAS* discussed on the appropriate ML *two years ago* and the
decision was that it *IS* indeed a bug. Please stop reverting the
status and if you have the authority,
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Michael Brown
michaelbrown2...@gmail.com wrote:
im seeing more and more vendors offer systems with ubuntu and other
linux distros. i agree with bert07 that they are finally starting to see
the linux community.
Speaking of vendors who are starting to see the
Please fix this. The problem is in the file
/usr/share/applications/gui-apt-key.desktop
in the line that reads:
Exec=/usr/bin/su-to-root -X -c /usr/sbin/gak
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I used the (pre-release) x86 Jaunty Live CD from April 11, 2009 to
install and (with the same hardware) the bug is still there. I decided
to boot back to the Live CD to see what values were in /etc/usplash.conf
that worked; that was a bit of a surprise for me: other than the
commented out parts,
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:26 AM, mr_willem wil...@crossbone.org wrote:
First of all, I want to tell that this bug is also very widespread in
germany.
I note that the browser market share (as per StatCounter) in Germany
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-DE-daily-20080701-20090329
is
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Running Jaunty (alpha; current to the repos as of Feb 24). Earlier
today Synaptic updated the gparted package on my system from
0.3.9-3ubuntu1 to 0.4.3-0ubuntu1 and so I decided to have a closer look.
I noticed that the suggested dependencies
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 319825 ***
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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 319825
acer_wmi in Jaunty on Aspire One exposes non-functional (always disabled)
rfkill device
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I did rmmod acer_wmi, and network-manager sprang into life and
happily connected my network.
Indeed, that solves the problem on my Acer Aspire One (110)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1042075
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I'm running Jaunty (pre-release) on my Aspire One and after blacklisting
the acer_wmi kernel module, not only does the WiFi work automagically,
but the LED blinks upon activity now :) So... fix released? :)
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acer_wmi issue is Bug 319825 BTW...
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
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Tim Gardner: Thank you; that seems to resolve the initial part of the
problem in that UF thread, however I should now file a bug against
Jockey because it doesn't show ath5k as an option (in-use or otherwise),
just ath_pci...
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Public bug reported:
Hardware: Acer Aspire One (A0A 110-1531)
Software: Installed Jaunty Alpha 3; updated current to repos as of Jan. 31
Problem: As per http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1042075 the
Aspire One has trouble getting wireless working; as per Tim Gardner's
comment in Bug
FYI: Jockey Bug #323830
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Image: Nothing to enable...
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e.g. see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1042075
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The ath_pci/ath5k conflict appears to affect Acer Aspire One netbooks:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1042075
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Microsoft slashes up to 5,000 jobs
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/22/technology/microsoft_jobs/
Excerpt: Software maker Microsoft announced Thursday it will cut up to
5,000 jobs in the next year and a half, or 5.5% of its global workforce,
citing further deterioration of global economic conditions.
See also http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1042075
The Acer Aspire One netbook is affected.
Workaround is to use wicd instead of NM for the present.
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Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs
Updating my daughter's Hardy system and this came up in Synaptic; I just
clicked the crash icon and submitted this automatically.
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 1 21:39:03 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage:
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post-installation script
it does seem particularly odd that after you reinstalled the kernel
from -proposed that the issue has now disappeared especially since you
had mentioned you tried reinstalling previously with no success
[...]
I feel especially dumb right now; I just looked back in my Synaptic
History and I
Just retested it Intrepid and this is definitely fixed now :)
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Ok, this is very odd.
Building the kernel worked; I installed it and it booted. So I marked
it as good with git and repeated the process another half dozen times...
and it never failed to boot. So I tried an experiment; I installed the
one from proposed again.
And it worked.
Was this just
Setting status to Incomplete; I can't reproduce the bug now! (but the
package seems to work, so that's a good thing, right? :)
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
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Thus I don't know if TEG itself is the proper package to report, but
its the one showing the symptoms.
Just the symptoms actually! :-)
Some time after I filed this bug report, I enabled the
Hours later...
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make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/conrad/Desktop/git/ubuntu-intrepid'
make: ***
[/home/conrad/Desktop/git/ubuntu-intrepid/debian/stamps/stamp-build-generic]
Error 2
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and again, no DEB.
I think I'll try the instructions on
some things I tried:
sudo apt-get build-dep linux
make clean
And then this one:
make menuconfig
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*** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the
*** required header files.
*** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries.
***
*** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try
w00t! Not sure what I did, but I got a DEB this time :)
Let's see if it works...
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Let's continue...
$ git bisect skip
Bisecting: 83 revisions left to test after this
[2dbc7d03068f309af321bc1244e99d6496b1fadd] r8169: wake up the PHY of the 8168
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hmm... I continue to get the 127 Error.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2008-May/002435.html
suggests that I run debuild -b
$ debuild -b
The program 'debuild' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install devscripts
ok...
$ debuild -b
I attempted to proceed without the missing package. I quickly realized
that I had no idea how to use vim, so I used gedit ;) Apparently the
kernel takes hours to compile on my system! :) The end result:
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II: Done
install -d
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$ sudo apt-get install linux-kernel-devel fakeroot build-essential makedumpfile
git-core
[sudo] password for conrad:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package linux-kernel-devel
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.27-10-generic
I am running Intrepid current to the repos, including intrepid-proposed.
Following this update:
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Commit Log for Mon Nov 24 19:34:55 2008
Upgraded the following packages:
compiz-fusion-plugins-main (0.7.8-0ubuntu2) to
rfurman24: FYI, my computer has an IDE DVD+/-RW drive and to test to see
if your problem is reproducible on my system, I added an IDE CD-ROM
drive and they both work fine when testing them with two different Live
CDs.
As per sudo lshw:
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description:
minor correction: when testing them with two different Live CDs
physically in the two drives but booting from the HD.
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rfurman24: I note that Erick Brunzell's case where it worked had one
SATA drive and one IDE drive; are both your drives the same? (e.g. both
IDE?) Also out of curiosity, have you tried rebooting your system since
the upgrade to udev 124-9?
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I got bitten by this bug, but only just now with Intrepid; it wasn't a problem
in Hardy, Gutsy, etc.
More curious still is that an Ubuntu Live CD displays the splash fine... yet an
install does not.
But test adding vga=791 to the boot parameter of the installed system does get
a display going
I tried the pendrive instructions; it too ends in the Could not find
kernel image: linux message. But again I note that my MB treated it as
FDD, so I'm guessing its the BIOS and there's not much I can do about
that (since it is the newest one available). So I guess for me this bug
is actually
I took the same cruzer micro to a store that had a Linpus Linux-based
Acer Aspire One and tested it on that machine; it booted fine (I
manually put, if I remember correctly, the USB HDD option to the top of
the boot list in the BIOS).
So does this just mean that my MB doesn't fully support
David D Lowe: I was using ISO files previously, so I tried it just now
with a burned CD of the final Intrepid ISO and it still didn't work,
either produced from inside my Intrepid install with the CD in the drive
or produced from running the LiveCD. I didn't use the -s switch
though...
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Tried creating it using the CD in the drive (from my installed system)
with -s and I still have the same problem. I checked for anything in
the BIOS that might change the result, but I couldn't find anything
(FWIW, my motherboard is an ASRock K7VT6 with the newest available
BIOS). Of course, if
Hmm... looks like this has been an issue in Fedora as well:
https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ticket/58
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Curious... based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo
I ran:
sudo qemu -hda /dev/sdb -m 256 -std-vga
and that emulated a booting system that DID work with the thumb drive.
I note that the thumb drive appeared in QEMU as:
ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (1953 MBytes)
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose
Originally reported in a private e-mail to Daniel Hahler regarding the
DEB in his PPA:
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The problem I'm having (starting with a new .VirtualBox directory
anyway, when testing with Damn Small Linux since its little ;) is that
when it
It did not fix the problem, unfortunately; I still get the same error.
Here was the command line output, BTW:
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-- Starting up at 11:23:46 --
[11:23:46] adding: /dev/sdb
[11:24:04] mounting
/home/conrad/Desktop/ISOs/Ubuntu/intrepid-081025-desktop-i386.iso
[11:24:04] updating
I tried a second time with the default persistence setting, but that
made no difference:
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-- Starting up at 11:49:38 --
[11:49:38] adding: /dev/sdb
[11:49:51] mounting
/home/conrad/Desktop/ISOs/Ubuntu/intrepid-081025-desktop-i386.iso
[11:49:51] updating dest_status as part
Just to get a really clean environment to test, I burned the latest
Intrepid daily LiveCD ISO available to me (20081028.2) and booted into
it (twice actually; the first time was to verify that the disk was a
good copy and it said it was :). I then installed virtualbox-ose from
universe*
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: usb-creator
I used usb-creator 0.1.10 with daily Ubuntu Intrepid LiveCD ISOs (e.g.
from Oct. 25th) on a 2GB SanDisk cruzer micro. Everything looked fine
and I could choose it as a bootable device from the BIOS menu. The
result, as per what I copied off
Also note Bug #271603 which describes a case where submitting the form
resulted in a pop-under that prevented the program from doing anything
else until it was taken care of!
This sort of bad behavior is notorious in the Windows software universe;
let's keep it out of Ubuntu's universe repository
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[...]
teg (0.11.2+debian-1) to 0.11.2+debian-1ubuntu1
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Since upgrading to Gutsy, then Hardy and now Intrepid, this bug hasn't
bitten me again and since no one else seems to be getting bit by this
bug, I'm going to mark it as Invalid. I will reopen if it bites again
:)
** Changed in: teg (Ubuntu)
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TEG has an odd video glitch in Intrepid where some of the text/images
appear to be shifted over slightly.
Minimizing the play window and Restoring it temporarily fixes things
(until the next action is taken, either by the human or AI).
It worked
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** Summary changed:
- TEG does not appear in Gnome Menu
+ [Intrepid] TEG icon missing from Gnome Menu
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: teg
- TEG does not appear in Gnome Menu in Edgy or Feisty, though in Dapper it
- did though (under Games). As I recall, the problem also
I just installed Intrepid and it has version 2.0.2; there is no need for
this bug anymore!
I installed VirtualBox and while it created a vboxusers group, I seem to
be able to run virtualized OSs without being a member of it...
If this is not the case for others, please change the status back.
I just installed Intrepid; virtualbox-ose-source is recommended by
virtualbox-ose and they work wonderfully together! :-)
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When you first run virtualbox-ose version 2 it offers a Registration
screen that is very unwelcome. Please disable its default display;
users can still find it under Help if they want it.
** Affects: virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu)
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I noticed two items on Groklaw's News Picks
(http://www.groklaw.net/newsitems.php) today that show progress slowly
happening on this bug:
A report of a notebook with Ubuntu preinstalled for sale in a computer store in
Krakow, Poland.
Interestingly, I found a copy of Tahoma/Tahoma Bold inside Microsoft's WEFT:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/weft01.htm
(cabextract WEFTIII2b1.exe then cabextract fonts.cab then wine tahoma.exe
will put the two in Wine's C:\windows\Fonts)
But unfortunately its not
I sent another e-mail to the msttcorefonts maintainer:
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Oh wow, I just discovered something else neat too! :)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/113822/en-us
Microsoft Word allows you to embed TrueType fonts in a Word document
so that you can view and edit the fonts (if licensing rights allow),
The only question is how to extract them from the DOC file; I wonder if
Wine plus the word97 viewer could do that.
It can! =D
They are automatically put into Wine's C:\windows\Fonts when you load
the DOC file in the Word 97 viewer...
Haven't got the Sample DOC working quite right yet, but soon
Even better than DOC, I can embed the font in a RTF file! So it
literally can be edited by gedit :) And the start/stop strings are
fairly straightforward, so its just a question of figuring out what sort
of compression they used.
Here, I will post a working RTF I just finished. It contains the
Lennart: it may just take someone poking at it a bit to get it to work;
like I said, I don't know what kind of compression they use.
Here's a mini-FAQ I just made, BTW:
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Do the Windows fonts allow installable embedding? Based on my copy of XP...
Arial v3.00 YES!
And looking into matters a bit, Symbol wouldn't be missed too much
methinks...
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Here's Wingdings as an RTF. Its much smaller, so would be better to
work with to figure out the compression than Arial Narrow.
** Attachment added: Wingdings embedded in a RTF document generated by Word 97
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16679172/Wingdings.rtf
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Addendum:
Wingdings2 v1.55 NO.
Wingdings3 v1.55 NO.
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Przemysław Kulczycki: Apparently OO.o has an experimental embedded ttf dumper
mentioned on
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discussmsgNo=59931
If you're at all familiar with such things, maybe try to strip it out
and work it into a simple rtf2ttf app (as I suggested in a new
Lennart: The problem is that the Tahoma set (tahoma.ttf and
tahomabd.ttf) was not part of Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for the
Web (see
http://web.archive.org/web/20020802092546/http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/win.htm
for what the site looked like six years ago before it was
I wrote: If you can find a source for tahomabd.ttf that is
redistributable and not overly restrictive, please let us know! :-)
I sent a message to the contact e-mail on
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ regarding something I noticed, but I'm
excited that it might work so I thought I'd put a copy
I've opened a thread on the ubuntu-devel-discuss ML to discuss the ODE97
redistributable runtime idea:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-
discuss/2008-August/005056.html
And yes, something as simple as a Hello World application will suffice
:-)
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