[ltp] DVD plays half of the screen twice

[Tod Harter]

You could always try Mandrake. At least it will seem fairly familiar to a 
RedHat user. I've found it to be more hacker friendly in general, though they 
are also in the habit of patching things (usually the kernel). Still, any 
distro these days which doesn't do that is going to be missing features 
people expect. 

On Wednesday 04 December 2002 09:09 am, Derek Rogillio wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 04:38, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> > It is possible that they forked XFree86 before a patch was applied to the
> > driver, but then again I could just be making all this up :^P
>
> Mitch,
>
> That is the way I understand it.  For 8.0, Red Hat modified XFree86
> 4.2.1 to include support for the Xft2.0 extensions that are currently in
> the XFree CVS code.  Xft2.0 supports FontConfig, which is what allows
> you to place fonts in ~./fonts and have them automatically recognized.
>
> Overall, it makes X look a lot better.  On the other hand, it is causing
> me nightmares when I try to compile anything from source that relies on
> the Xft headers.  Many of the applications I use don't come stock with
> Red Hat (like Fluxbox) or have upgrades available (Gnome) and I have
> been unsuccessful getting them to compile.
>
> It's a major factor in my current search for a new distribution.  I've
> been using Red Hat exclusively since 5.x, but I am now looking at more
> "hacker-friendly" distributions like SlackWare and Gentoo.
>
> -Derek

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Tod Harter
Giant Electronic Brain