2007 Red Hat Summit coverage
- Red Hat shows its Global Desktop cards (DesktopLinux.com)
- Red Hat Offers Global Desktop for Linux (CIO Today)
- Red Hat tries new desktop Linux angle (ZDNet)
- Red Hat to Build a Virtual Appliance OS (eWeek)
- Red Hat launches desktop Linux offering for emerging markets (eWeek)
- Red Hat Shuns 'Windows Clone' Model for Global Desktop (eWeek)
- Red Hat Summit 2007: Day 1 - desktops and licenses (News.com)
- IBM, Red Hat team to reinforce Linux on mainframes (Network World)
- Linux On Mainframe Program, IBM and Red Hat (Tech News)
- Red Hat releases Liberation fonts
- JasperSoft Business Intelligence Software Now Available on Red Hat Exchange
- Scalix joins Red Hat Exchange
- Sybase and Red Hat Announce Plans for Expanded Alliance
- Zimbra Launches as Charter Member in Red Hat Exchange
Posted May 10, 2007 20:51 UTC (Thu)
by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
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Posted May 10, 2007 22:04 UTC (Thu)
by johnkarp (guest, #39285)
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Posted May 10, 2007 22:38 UTC (Thu)
by jwb (guest, #15467)
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Posted May 10, 2007 22:48 UTC (Thu)
by johnkarp (guest, #39285)
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Posted May 11, 2007 4:44 UTC (Fri)
by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
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Despite all its qualities Vera (and its main enhanced fork DejaVu) has different metrics than Arial & Times New Roman, so if you replace these fonts with DejaVu in a document the blocks of text sizes will change. And you'll get all sorts of formatting side effects (page break changes, table cell overflows, etc)
For new documents it's certainly safer to use DejaVu/Vera from the start on.
Posted May 10, 2007 23:00 UTC (Thu)
by cook (subscriber, #4)
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Posted May 11, 2007 2:00 UTC (Fri)
by proski (subscriber, #104)
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I'm staying with DejaVu.
Posted May 11, 2007 9:32 UTC (Fri)
by xav (guest, #18536)
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This bit has more FLOSS consequences:2007 Red Hat Summit coverage
http://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/
Thats good news; its a very nice looking font. I hope they will provide 2007 Red Hat Summit coverage
some means for the community to contribute to it offically. Most font
contributions I've seen companies make seem to be one-time code drops,
without any means for improvements to be reincorporated, so then dozens of
people end up making forks.
I wanted to like it, but these fonts aren't as nice as Bitstream Vera. At size 8 Vera Sans is much nicer than Liberation Sans. Liberation Mono has blurry color fringes that Vera Sans Mono lacks. Were these fonts developed specifically because Vera's license is considered not free enough?2007 Red Hat Summit coverage
The currently released Liberation font contains no hinting information, 2007 Red Hat Summit coverage
hence the blurry edges. Until they release the version with hinting, you
can probably improve your results by giving freetype's autohinter a shot.
The main reason as indicated in the article was to get FLOSS fonts metric-compatible with microsoft core fonts.2007 Red Hat Summit coverage
The article has been ammended, thanks for the pointer.2007 Red Hat Summit coverage
That's just Latin, Greek and Cyrillic as used in Europe. No Hebrew, no Arabic, no Georgian, no Armenian, no Asian Latin, no non-Slavic Cyrillic. And of course no Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
The glass is half empty for me
I saw nothing about this very interessant blog item from Chris Blizzard:How about ATI ?
http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=288 where he basically says that ATI
commited to fixing the current mess.
Even if I think it's too little too late, I'm now waiting for Intel
discrete cards.