Linux news

2007 07 12

Linux Fonts and Remote Access Keep Improving

Improving Linux font rasterization?

While the discussion continues it looks like that in the long term the major toolkits have to get together to talk about implementing the mentioned techniques. Or, as suggested by David, a initiative dedicated to bringing patches upstream is launched. It could try to work with upstream on the one hand, but with the distributors on the other hand - if the users see the results because the distributions include the patches it might help influencing the decision of upstream. But there is no way of reaching perfect font rasterization with changes in FreeType only.

http://s5h.net/u?zdbc5
NoMachine NX 3.0 improves remote access to Linux boxes

As a whole, I found NX 3.0 to be very capable software, and faster than VNC, which for a free solution is reason enough to earn a place on my network.

http://s5h.net/u?ze2b4
Related: Visual comparison of major OS's font rendering

Personally I don't like ClearType at all. And looking at it gives me headaches. Also, Linux's myth of bad font rendering is finally over.

http://s5h.net/u?zd70d