On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 02:05:41AM +0200, Eric wrote: > As mentioned above, a font server is very useful when it is accessed > through the network. But it is also even more useful when used in a > multi-OS environment. Yup. > Once your favorite app, requesting specific fonts, is installed on your > Debian system and your font server is running, you know that you will be > able to redirect this app to the X server of whatever machine running > XYZ os with no pain (you just want to configure your X servers accross > your lan to access the right font server). That's a good point. > Of course, font server is useless on standalone machines, which concerns > a lot of people (you don't want to access a font server across the > internet!) This was kinda my point: a lot of people are using font servers on standalone XFree86 4-based machines, which is, as far as I can see, unnecessary. -- 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: TWA csim Elvis CIDA COSCO Telex Becker propaganda S Box
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