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On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:50:17AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Font servers are irrelevant these days, as modern tookits use client side
> font selection and rendering (fontconfig and Xft). Once upon a time, it was
> handy to have a font server running on your network so all your X servers
> (hardware terminals) could have access to the same fonts.
Back when discs were small and all fonts were bitmap and compression was
black magic, it seemed a good idea to avoid having many copies of the fonts
spread around the network.
This was probably about the same time that /usr/share was actually shared.
- Tel
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