[ILUG] Fonts tip

[Declan Moriarty]

Was it Nick Murtagh who wrote on Wednesday 06 February 2002 14:01:

>
> You've got fonts that _crash_ applications? How did you manage that?
> I've never seen that with Mandrake or any distro.

Try the Chinese big 5 fonts with Mandrake. Use drakfont to open them. Ditto 
for ISO 10646 fonts on Mandrake 8.0, may be fixed in 8.1.
>
> > 4. You are one of the percentage meeting the above two requirements that
> > they work for.
> >
> > Otherwise they're too much scripting, and too little common sense.
>
> Mind you I've found the Mandrake configurator type things to be better than
> yast or yast2 (which i haven't seen since SuSE 7.0, but it sucked back
> then) and what ever crappy thing redhat use (linuxconf, haven't used that
> since 6.2).

I'll give them that much. What they have done is lumber you with so many of 
them - rpmdrake, Update Manager, Linuxconf, kpackage, gnomerpm, all doing 
more or less the same thing - adding options to an 'rpm' command.

>
> Hopefully the fonts thing will be fixed in 8.2 (which is in beta at the
> moment).

There is always hope at the beta and RC stages. Then someone pulls the rug, 
they drop what doesn't work (e.g. reiserfs, supermount) and release it. I sat 
on a crashtester's list for a year with them.
-- 
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	Declan Moriarty




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