Posts Tagged Fedora
Wine Fonts are all Squares in Fedora 12
I recently installed my first Wine application in Fedora 12. This was the result:
The fix:
Download spec file from http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/packages/SPECS/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.1.spec
(don’t use the default corefonts spec file. This spec file has been modded to get around a no-longer-needed dependency on chkfontpath)
Install Pre-requisites and follow instructions at http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ but use the above spec file.
yum install rpm-build yum install cabextract yum install ttmkfdir yum install wget
Enable Wine Font Smoothing (you need to do this or the font’s will be chunky and ugly)
http://www.wine-reviews.net/wine-reviews/tips-n-tricks/how-to-enable-font-anti-aliasing-in-wine.html
Look for the English version of the wine font smoothing script at the bottom of the above mentioned page.
I also received an SELinux error “SELinux has prevented wine from performing an unsafe memory operation.” when installing the application but this did not prevent it from installing so I left it alone. However it seems I have to try and start the application twice before it will launch but not sure of a fix on this as yet.
Fedora 11 – So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
So I had Fedora 11 installed for a few weeks…
The install program created overlapping partitions which required manual intervention.
I have an Intel video chipset and I ran into the screen blanking bug and several other bugs as mentioned in the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs list. It would also lock solid after about a day.
And then to top it all off the Fedora Mirrors recently had a major package upgrade issue which left their package mirrors inconsistent and un-useable for i386 upgrades.
Fedora maintains strict OSS purity at the expense of useability.
In years past I would hack, fiddle and coerce to get the system I wanted but these days in the Linux world I believe things should Just Work™
It’s a shame that Fedora eventually becomes a stable product in the Redhat distribution by which point it has become totally boring/corporate.
So now it’s back to Ubuntu 9.04 and it’s plain to see the reason why it has such traction among desktop users. I still have niggles with Ubuntu but overall it provides a better user experience.
It’s nice to be prompted to download a codec when attempting to listen to an MP3 and within moments you are away.
So if you are after the easiest mainstream Linux desktop experience go Ubuntu.