By default, some verdena microsoft font is chosen, it looks pretty OK, but there are only one size. Couldn't you make times (adobe) the default font upon install, even though you chose to install the microsoft font on the system? Another thing what about making the default size 14, and add "Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 10" to .Xdefault? In that way Mandrake would be the only distribution with readable out of the box.
