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Libranet 2.8 Review

Posted by michael on from the give-in-to-the-power-of-debian dept.

TheMadPenguin writes "When I heard about Libranet 2.8 containing KDE 3.1 and kernel 2.4.20 in our forums, I just about fell out of the chair I was sitting in. As you all probably already know, Libranet is a Debian-based distro aimed toward the desktop user. Until now, I had never heard of a Debian release with all the newest goodies, but my world was about to get turned upside down. Read the full review with screenshots at MadPenguin.org."

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  1. Re:Just wondering.... by mattrix2k · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, there is NO obligation under the GPL for a distro maker to host ISOs at their expensive for the benefit of freeloaders like yourself. "Free software rulez yeah! Gimme the source! What, I have to pay for it? I'll stick to my pirate copy of Wind0ze thanks."

  2. Re:JPEGs for font rendering examples? by FyRE666 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not only that, but the Anti-aliasing examples look a bit suspicious to me.

    I recently installed KDE 3.1 onto my Gentoo machine (it's usually a headless box, but I was curious to see the improvements in KDE). The sans-serif fonts were all very nice, but bring up Slashdot with the "Times" font and it looked horrific! I'm not saying that /. is the last word in beautiful Web design, but the anti-aliasing actually made it look worse. I might try throwing some Windows fonts onto the box to see if it's better at some point...

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  3. This would be a first... by Qbertino · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...if that Font AA stuff he's telling about is true. I have never seen consitant/existing font-AA across the desktop (Motif/QT/GTK/whatever/etc.) on Linux.
    If they managed to untangle the font config and renderlib mess that would be a good thing indeed.

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