From: Jeff Shultz 

Rich Gauszka wrote:

> Font smoothing  ( XP's Cleartype) really makes a difference also. Red Hat
> 9.0 and Mandrake Powerpack 9.1 seem to have recognized this with some
> truly readable fonts on an LCD monitor. Hopefully the remaining distros
> will also focus on this ( SUSE 8.2 etc ).
>
>  A pet peeve -  with applications Opera for Linux has some of the ugliest
> out of the box fonts viewed on an LCD monitor that I have ever seen.
>
Basically everyone needs to accept XFT as a standard - and support it.
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Jeff Shultz

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