<quote who="Mike MacCana"> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > <quote who="Rob Weir"> > > > > > Fedora still uses a font server by default? Why? > > So that workstations don't have to cache large amounts of fonts locally? > > Why wouldn't you want to use a font server? Am I missing something?
You got really bad quoting going on there. :-) The reason why font servers are not very useful these days is because almost all font rendering is done on the client side (thanks to freetype, RENDER, Xft, etc). Very few modern programs use X core fonts, or server-side font rendering at all anymore. As I said earlier in the thread, xfs is only there because removing it provides no benefit, but would require lots of testing. - Jeff -- OSCON 2004: Portland OR, USA http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ "Anyway - I need something more James Bond than Banana Man, if you know what I mean..." - Tom Gilbert -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
