Regarding the poor performance - a word for the wise - make sure your network configuration is complete! I don't thikn mine was, and that's why it was slow.
On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:23 pm, Mike Stoddart wrote: > Just for peoples' information. I tried to install truetype fonts by hand; > this is a process that I've done manually many times before with 100% > success. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work here for me. I'll > investigate. If anyone has done this themselves, what steps did you take? > > I usually do the following: > > cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts > mkdir Truetype > cd Truetype > (copy truetype fonts from windows) > ttmkfdir > fonts.scale > mkfontdir > > And that usually works. Any comments? > > Also, I'm getting really poor performance from RL. It seems to take ages > for anything to load, and the graphical performance is poor as well. I know > this is difficult to explain and quantify, but I'm comparing RL against > Mandrake and Peanut Linux. Has Anyone else seen this before? > > Thanks > MIKE > > On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:35 pm, Joseph Cheek wrote: > > caldera > > > > we may be out of ftp connections > > > > rpm > > > > check for our powerpak coming soon for tt fonts. if you have some you > > want to install yourself, load kfontinst from the cd [rl/extra/RPMS]. > > > > thanks! > > > > joe > > > > Mike Stoddart wrote: > > > Now that I'm up and running with RL, I have some questions. > > > > > > What flavour of Linux is Redmond Linux based from? ie. Debian, > > > Caldera, Redhat etc... > > > > > > I tried to update RL through the update wizard but it couldn't connect > > > to ftp.redmondlinux.com (org? can't remember). Are ther any other > > > options for updating automatically through the wizard? > > > > > > Depending on the answer to the first question, which "package manager" > > > should I be using? > > > > > > Would it be possible to include some true type fonts wiht the install > > > that get installed automatically? I can do it manually, but maybe a > > > menu option under system config would be great. Kind of like Mandrake. > > > > > > Thanks for any help in advance. > > > Mike > > > > > > - > > > -- > > > rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of > > > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/ > > - - -- rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/
