Jagged fonts
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:date: 2005-03-31T02:26:00
:category: computer
:tags: font, linux

Tim Bray blogged about his `gripes with Mac OS X`_ and then among the
reasons why not to unswitch from Mac OS X he mentions "jaggedy spidery
fonts" and "fast start". Did he every heard about FreeType_ or
here_? Since I have installed msttcorefonts on my Debian_, I have
never seen any jagged fonts at all. And with fontconfig_ and its
support in KDE_, I have never had problems with installing all
beautiful fonts I can find (this_ is my favorite for writing).

Concerning the fast start. Suspend/resume is supported in 2.6.\* Linux
kernel and there is even more stable and robust kernel patch
swsuspend2_, which is not dependent on sometimes rather hairy ACPI
support in Linux.

.. _`gripes with Mac OS X`:
    https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/03/29/Switch
.. _FreeType:
    http://freetype.sourceforge.net/image/ft2-kde.png
.. _here:
    http://freetype.sourceforge.net/image/ft2-nautilus.png
.. _Debian:
    http://www.debian.org
.. _fontconfig:
    http://www.fontconfig.org/
.. _KDE:
    http://kde.org
.. _this:
    http://www.stormtype.com/free.html
.. _swsuspend2:
    http://www.suspend2.net/