#Knoppix wipefs commands mac os x#

Notice that funny looking font names? My default serif font is Little font configuration window (click the image on the left to see 'Ah.' you say, 'Firebird must simply have differentĭefault fonts configured. They're showing me radically different things. Underlying rendering engine (Mozilla's Gecko), yet Let's think brieflyĪbout what's going on. Okay, here's where it gets really mysterious. On my LCD screen it looks very, very good. Nice, isn't it? The fonts are crisp and clear. Little thumbnail image to see what I see on my screen when reading my Screen, at the same resolution and window size. IBM ThinkPad T21 running the latest Knoppix), with the same blog Let's now look at the latest version of Mozilla on the same machine (the Though I do claim that I shouldn't have to doĪnything. Nothing I did resulted inĪ dramatic improvement of the display-not that I claim to have triedĮverything. I spent some time futzing around with the fonts to figure out Notice the jagged fonts? No smooth edges here. Thumbnail image to see what I see on my screen when reading my blog ThinkPad T21 running the latest Knoppix, which is based on Debian). I installed it recently on my notebook (and IBM Let's start with the latest release of the Mozilla Firebirdĭatabase).

Graphics cards (or chipsets in the case of the notebooks) and nearly It's not asking a lot, is it? They don'tĪs the 'designer' intended, just nice. I want web pages to lookĭecent on my Linux box. X Window System on your desktop means that fonts must suck.

#Knoppix wipefs commands mac os x#

On Mac OS X it's all quite amazing out of Have you ever noticed what a royal pain in the ass it is to getįonts working on Linux that do not look like complete crap? On