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A must have for Linux users: Microsoft fonts - Click!
If there is anything more bureaucratic and hypocrictical it's Microsoft's selfish and eletist bias against other software and operating systems. Such is their case against Linux users.They are very close to pulling a Metalica/RIAA move and calling Linux software piracy when it isn't. While their futile attempts to sue Linux users by paying SCO to sue companies that use Linux (AutoZone, DaimlerChryster, Lowes Home Improvement, UPS, etc.)
If their is anyone they should sue, it is Redhat for profiting off of free software for non-commercal users. (Some one at the North Carolina Linux Distributer needs to re-read the GPL license they swore too.)
But that is not why I am here this morning! I'm here to give you something that most distros do not have because of a Microsoft EULA agreement: THE CORE FONTS!
Face it, you feel like the odd man out when you are at a message board and it says you can pick Arial, Impact, Tahoma, and Verdana but you can't.
So what should you do? Follow the instructions in the link. Note that after you have built the 5MB RPM file from the 6KB spec file, the RPM will end out at file:/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch. You should also download and install the cabextract package. You should then restart your computer after you have installed the core fonts.
Labels: fonts, linux, microsoft
posted by Bushido Hacks 8/02/2004 09:29:00 AM
