Bitstream To Donate 10 Fonts To Free Software World

21mhz writes "Posted on FootNotes: The GNOME Foundation and Bitstream Inc. announce long-term agreement to bring high quality fonts to Free Software. Ten fonts will be released for use under a special open license agreement, giving advanced font capabilities to all free and open source software developers and users. Read the full press release for more details." Modification and re-release (under a different name) is explicitly allowed, too.

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If my penis had a bell

[Acidic_Diarrhea]

Please save the "10 fonts /IS/ a big deal" comments. The Microsoft world does very well with ARIAL, COURIER, and TIMES NEW ROMAN. (Actually, most of the personal computing world does fairly well with these fonts). Thus, only three good fonts are needed by a proper system. We can safely say that the 10 fonts being released are overkill and must be from the bottom of the barrel.

Why don't you wait until someone actually makes a comment about 10 fonts not being enough before you get upset and cry about it? I realize that it might look like an easy way to gain some karma but come on, you can't possibly need karma this badly, can you? Basically here's what you said: 10 Fonts is a big deal. The fonts released SHOULD be high quality ones. So, how do you know 10 fonts are a big deal son? I mean, let's suppose the second conditional is not satisfied. Then is it still a big deal? Let's suppose these 10 fonts aren't high quality. Big deal? No big deal? Which is it? Please, I'm curious.

I know I know... this is flamebait... but...

[TheShadow]

KDE is a much better and more advanced window manager, so it should have these nice fonts, too.


Actually, anything that runs on top of XFree86 sucks. Besides, Ximian GNOME is much better than all the other sorry excuses for window managers... but it still sucks. Just use Windows for your desktop and use Linux for your server... you'll be much better off.

Re:thank god!

[bogie]

" the fonts used in the mozilla browsing experience just suck! i hear you can get fully anti-aliased fonts working on linux but it seems to be a bit of a chore...."

Are you asking about AA in linux in general or in Mozilla? Because for Linux, obviously as you know you can use Redhat. All the other vendors are sure to follow in the next year releasing distros that finally don't have shitty fonts. Hell within the next few years even Debian may ship with decent fonts "out of the box".
If your talking about getting Mozilla AA going in RH 8.0, then its moron proof.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozi ll a1.2.1/Red_Hat_8x_RPMS/xft/RPMS/i386/

Re:Double Good

[0x0d0a]

I like to see the 2 desktop projects recognize their mutual needs and their mutual strengths.

Contrast Gettys' attitude to that of Mosfet...