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== Installing Fedora 8 Generic Notes ==
 
== Installing Fedora 8 Generic Notes ==
  
This is a guide for generic installation notes of Fedora.
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This is a guide for generic installation notes of Fedora. This guide is quite incomplete.
  
== Fonts ==
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== True Type Fonts ==
  
Linux standard fonts are not the nicest of the world even for LCD displays. I recommend to import TTF fonts of Windows by your own and tweak the freetype installation and disable antialising for best font display. Please search for "freetype bytecode_interpreter fedora" in your favourite search engine.  
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Linux standard fonts are not the nicest of the world even for LCD displays. I recommend to import TTF fonts of Windows by your own and tweak the freetype installation and disable antialising for best font display. Please search for "freetype bytecode_interpreter fedora" in your favourite search engine for more details.
Copy standard TTF fonts from your Windows box to a special dir (/opt/fonts or /usr/share/fonts/ms). Make these fonts known to variuos font providers.
 
=== xfs ===
 
Edit /etc/X11/fs/config and look where to enter your path.
 
 
 
A quick guide:
 
  
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Copy standard TTF fonts from your Windows box to "/usr/share/fonts/msfonts"
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After this use follwoing commands to tweak freetype:
 
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     # yumdownloader --source freetype
 
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[http://atrpms.net ATrpms]
 
[http://atrpms.net ATrpms]
 
[http://www.jpackage.org JPackage]
 
[http://www.jpackage.org JPackage]
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[[Category:Fedora]]
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== Virtualization ==
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[http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/TechComparison A good virtualization comparison]
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== Office ==

Latest revision as of 01:42, 17 December 2007

Installing Fedora 8 Generic Notes

This is a guide for generic installation notes of Fedora. This guide is quite incomplete.

True Type Fonts

Linux standard fonts are not the nicest of the world even for LCD displays. I recommend to import TTF fonts of Windows by your own and tweak the freetype installation and disable antialising for best font display. Please search for "freetype bytecode_interpreter fedora" in your favourite search engine for more details.

Copy standard TTF fonts from your Windows box to "/usr/share/fonts/msfonts" After this use follwoing commands to tweak freetype:

   # yumdownloader --source freetype
   # rpm -i freetype*src*rpm

Fedora < 8

Edit freetype.spec (/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/freetype.spec) and look for something like "without_bytecode". Set this to "0". Then do:

   # rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/freetype.spec
   # rpm -Uvh --force /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/freetype-*.rpm

Fedora 8 and above

   # rpmbuild -bb --with bytecode_interpreter ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/freetype.spec
   # rpm -Uvh --force /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/freetype-*.rpm

Repositories

Livna ATrpms JPackage


Virtualization

A good virtualization comparison

Office