-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:53:55 -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > Also, they knocked linux for having bad fonts when web surfing. But > > at sourceforge.net there's a way to get microsoft's fonts. Just > > search for fonts and it should be near the top. > > They're absolutely right. Out of the box, Linux sucks for a web > surfer compared to Windows. The user is forced to go through some > extra steps just to get fonts that make a web site look decent. > Should a user who just picked up a copy of Red Hat Linux at the local > CompUSA have to go to Sourceforge and search for fonts just to display > his favorite web site properly? I'll argue that they should not. I'll > also support the argument that it's not completely Red Hat's fault - > part of the problem lies in the fact that we're dealing with free > software and nobody wants to pay to license fonts, and (a larger) part > of the problem is web sites that are designed for IE and nothing else. The list of things the user needs to download from web sites is not limited to TT fonts. Add Real Player, Flash plug-in, ALSA driver, NVIDIA driver, Java, (NTFS drivers). Worse, installing those components often involves several manual steps in addition to locating them on the Internet. Compare that to the Microsoft way of semi-automatic download and installation via a small EXE and/or Wizard. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+A0qs0iMVcrivHFQRAu62AJ9jydJm1zLDRsgStDfI/yGiq/RuSACeKuHx DADPBaoxl/zHSbN0TqgesSI= =x1fa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
