how come that for every distro i use of linux the fonts absolutely suck. When i'm browsing the internet with mozilla or firebird why do my eyes have to hurt so much, same with openoffice what kind of fonts come with the binary version?
I'm trying to do a university project and i'm getting a major headache coding in Eclipse, why can't the people who develop this at least supply ONE decent font for an application?
Now i don't mean any of this, but it shows you how pissed off i am.

What is wrong with them? if you don't like antialiasing then turn it off.

you mean they don't really suck then?

I agree, I have arch linux 0.6 and I installed a bunch of ttf fonts and they look pretty dang nice I think :-)

HC

I also agree...I use Mandrake 9.2 and the only time the fonts sucked were when I installed Opera and that was quickly fixed by a quick search in LQ.

Well....... disagree completely - Bitstream Vera Sans with anti-aliasing is as good as anything around..........

ok, i'll try to find out how to install truetype fonts in redhat 9

I'm using Slackware 9.1 and I have used Redhat 6.2-9.0.

I have to agree. After using Windows all day at work when I fire up my Linux box at home the fonts suck. The browser fonts, the icon fonts, and everything looks about 10 years old. Mozilla and pretty much every other browser I use make the fonts look smaller and just not as pretty.

I use Konqueror and that's about the best I can get my fonts to look.

If you get used to IE, or Firebird in Windows, web stuff looks worse in Linux. I don't know why. It just does.

Peace,
Whitehat

Guys...one way that will help improve the font situation for you is this site:

corefonts.sourceforge.net

check it out, try it out.

For Firebird on Linux, you need to get the right tartball "version" to enjoy anti-aliased fonts - ie the

gtk2+xft version

bitstream vera sans using the xft "version" is as clear/pretty as anything else.........

Get it from here:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fire...ase-notes.html