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Linux Gazette #128

[Posted July 3, 2006 by ris]

The Linux Gazette for July 2006 is out. Articles include How Fonts Interact with the X Server and X Clients, Creating a Rudimentary Kiosk System using FVWM, A Brief Introduction to VMware Player, Subversion: Installation, Configuration -- Tips and Tricks, Coding a Simple Packet Sniffer, and more.

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Linux Gazette #128

Posted Jul 3, 2006 17:41 UTC (Mon) by otaylor (subscriber, #4190) [Link]

Probably not news to most LWN readers, but the font article should be ignored: it is describing technologies that are no longer in common use. Goodbye and good riddance to the XLFD (X Logical Font Description). Contemporary applications, toolkits, and desktops use the fontconfig library instead.