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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
Cc: emac list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Font sources
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:28:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A5B79482-A420-4B39-9CD2-F96766FEF1EC@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <711a73df0709140537k11667927x7e2fe45f43f3233e@mail.gmail.com>


Am 14.09.2007 um 14:37 schrieb Dave Pawson:

> Seems like xfs is going out of fashion on Fedora.
> Wonder if other OS's will follow this direction.

Xfs was always meant for a different environment than that of Linux PC.

Imagine a situation in some company with some corporate look, which  
is based on commercial fonts. Instead of installing that on dozens of  
desktop systems one X Font Server can provide the font for dozens of  
clients. Or imagine on the desktop thin clients with little memory.

--
Greetings

   Pete

People say that  if you play Microsoft CD's  backwards, you hear satanic
things,  but that's  nothing, because  if you  play them  forwards, they
install Windows.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-14 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.812.1189705707.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-14  3:01 ` Font sources Tim X
2007-09-14 12:37   ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-14 15:28     ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.863.1189773461.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-15  3:36     ` Tim X
2007-09-15  8:16       ` Dave Pawson
     [not found]       ` <mailman.895.1189844209.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-15 10:40         ` Tim X
2007-09-13 17:48 Dave Pawson
2007-09-13 20:26 ` Mathias Megyei

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