I concur. I now have X terminals using anti-aliased fonts! It's nutty, I tell ya.
I've noticed that Gnome draaags ass on RH8.0, so I've switched to KDE, which runs much faster. The various configuration apps are much easier to use compared to previous versions. jh > Hello, all. > > I just installed RedHat 8.0 on the laptop yesterday, and I am very happy with > it (so far). Most of you probably saw the link below posted on /. a few days > ago, but if you are using RH8.0, I recommend you take a look at it. There > are very clear instructions for installing TT fonts from Windows (or, I > suppose, any other source) for use by both KDE (I do not use Gnome, cannot > comment) and OpenOffice. For the first time ever, OpenOffice looks really > good, font-wise. In fact, I had imported a document from MS Word a while > back, and some equations were munged b/c OO did not have the MS SYmbol font > installed. As of the new install, everything is fixed b/c the correct fonts > are now there. > > There are also good instructions on installing and using apt for RPMs. > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1890&page=1 > > John. > > -- > John B. Cole, Data Manager > Southern Regional Climate Center > 260 Howe-Russell > Baton Rouge, LA > 70803 > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://host19.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > ~~ John Hebert
