> b) given that we're talking about font rendering, how we talk about > Linux systems that actually render fonts?
The subset that do: Framebuffer drivers, nanogui, and X (particularly non embedded devices). Kernel side font handling is bitmaps or font tables with the work done by the video card and anything else is best pushed out to user space anyway as a browse of the pango source quickly shows. Alan _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg