[Kannada] Kannada on Fedora Core 3
Arun Sharma
arun at sharma-home.net
Sun Jan 9 23:12:20 PST 2005
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 03:31:05AM +0530, H P Nadig wrote:
> >In my opinion, the single most important barrier to open source adoption
> >on the desktop is the font rendering engine, which frankly sucks compared
> >to the one from Microsoft/Apple, inspite of all the advances in recent
> >years. So my suggestion is - if you have some free time, hack the freetype
> >engine to make it render better and design some free fonts that look as
> >good as the ones from the above companies.
> >
> >
> Its not all that bad, though. We do need a better, free font - I agree.
>
Having gotten my wireless card working with Fedora Core 3, I tend to
agree. It's when you try to use windows fonts on Linux that things
break horribly. Otherwise, they're quite ok.
-Arun
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