On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Mandrake Bugs wrote:
> > Wrong. Mandrake 6.0 and 6.1 come with X-TT in X, not (like RH) with xfsft.
> > Therefore, it's not ttmkfdir, but mkttfdir.
>
> So, Bernard, does this then mean that Mandrake works functionally identical
> to RedHat, but does it differently?
Almost identical functionally. X-TT has a couple of significant advantages
over xfsft, for example it has better support for Chinese/Japanese fonts.
Also, XFree86 4.0 will be using X-TT for TrueType support, so we are
compatible with the future and RH isn't. It's a "bug" RH needs to fix; it
very probably won't happen before XFree86 4.0 is released.
> If that's so, how does that combine with
> the Mandrake claim to be 100% compatible with RedHat?
Where have you seen that claim regarding 6.0 or 6.1?
We claim 100% compatibility for 5.x releases, 99% for 6.x, because we
still use the same packaging, etc., in some (few) places, our improvements
break compatibility where the gain justifies it.
Besides, there are no changed APIs or such - this won't break
compatibility with RH RPMs in 99.99999999% of the cases.
LLaP
bero
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