Hi y'all, I've noticed that a lot of people (both here and on #debian on OPN) are using font servers with X (xfs, xfstt, xfs-xtt, etc, etc) on a single machine, i.e. they're not sharing the fonts over the network. Why is this? XFree86 has been able to handle TrueType fonts (along with Type1, bitmap, etc) directly since version 4, so what's up? Am I missing some important feature here, or is it just not yet common knowledge that font servers are now (and have been since XFree86 4 was released a long time ago) unnecessary for 99% of workstations? I'm especially curious, since I've seen people running two (or more!) font servers on the one machine, which seems unnecessary (and wasteful) even if they were sharing over the network. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Juiliett Class Submarine Pakistan FBI INSCOM import
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