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.
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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]
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2007-09-15 3:36 ` Tim X
2007-09-15 8:16 ` Dave Pawson
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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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