Today’s Linux Links
VMware Image for “Ubuntu 6.06 ‘Dapper Drake’” is available from vmware.com.
Just in case that VMware day comes: “Expanding a virtual VMware disk.”
This article “Means of Composing Accented Characters in X Window System” opens the whole issue about the difficulty of generating glyphs in Linux beyond the traditional, North American ASCII characters. Fortunately there is a Character Palette tool in GNOME that addresses this issue.
The vnc2swf screen recorder was my first choice for screen capture in Linux but lately Wink looks attractive to me—for both Linux and Windows.
In “Linspire, Canonical, Freespire, Ubuntu join forces” we have an interesting turn of events: the ‘problem’ of playing closed sound and video media should be addressed by this venture. This could make closed content more open or Linux closer to ‘classical’ commercialism.
Comments
AG, 2007-04-30 08:10:45
Fonts are true-type fonts are not easy by design, as they are highly coveted by that Redmond woolly mammoth. However, depending upon your distro, there are built-in scripts that help lessen the annoyance of configuring them. In Slackware, I use a script called 'fontconfig'. I simply grab all of my 'special' truetype fonts from a windows machine.