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Make your fonts smooth in Ubuntu and KDE

Another quick note. Apparently Apple holds the patent to the font smoothing technology that makes everything on the Mac look so much nicer than other operating systems.

Who cares you say? You run Linux? Well, it turns out that someone has reverse engineered it and it is doable on Linux as well though they can’t turn it on by default due to legal reasons.

Check this thread out for complete details: Font Smoothing on Ubuntu

Posted by nick on Dec 18 2006 under Software | Comment now » |

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