Tao Linux and fonts on Fedora

[Chong Yu Meng]

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Matthew Carpenter wrote:
|
| Since when have Fonts had any direct impact on Monitors?  Fonts are
| rendered in XWindows (or sometimes in the graphcs card for certain
| OpenGL graphics apps).
|
| Now Red Hat's fonts, however, used to seem a bit ugly (particularly
| since their old installer used to relentlessly choose interlaced mode
| for my systems).  We're talking RH6.x days, though.  7.1 was markedly
| better-looking and I think they've continued down the beauty path since.
| ~ They still have a long way to catch SuSE, though (IMHO) :)
|
|

The trouble here is that fonts look different on CRT and LCD monitors.
The default settings for RedHat/Fedora look good on CRT, but on my
Viewsonic, it looks really bad. A discussion of the issues can be found
here : http://jmason.org/howto/subpixel.html

Even between LCD screens, I have noticed some differences. On Dell LCD
screens (I think they are actually OEM from LG), at lower resolutions,
the picture is blurry. On my Viewsonic, the graphics are sharp and
beautiful, but text leaves a lot to be desired for default settings (for
Fedora, anyway). You will need to tweak it quite a bit to get it to
display nicely (without hurting your eyes). When I installed Tao Linux,
however, the text looked good from the beginning. So, I'm thinking that
the default settings for Tao may be more suited for LCD screens -- just
my very subjective opinion though.


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