[Liverpool] Distros of Choice

[Tim Dobson]

Andrew Williams wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 05:59:49PM +0100, Stephen Mount wrote:
>> On a more geeky note, I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 on my MacBook Pro and
>> everything seems to be going well. Still not found a good reason to move
>> from OS X but just trying things out! It's mainly the fact that Ubuntu
>> doesn't have the Adobe suite. Ubuntu's text rendering is great but OS X
>> + Adobe + it's font support just wins for me. Also the UI seems more
>> polished and with things like Cocoa and all that jazz it just makes
>> everything seem so native and just plain _good_.
> 
> Typography and font support is a sticky area on any FOSS system, OSX has 
> been the long time leader in typography support and I doubt it'll be 
> toppled in the next few years, Adobe have their sticky mitts too far 
> into the platform to let it slip.

Erk, I know at least one person who'd disagree.

I really need to transcode this MFS talk from Dave Crossland on free 
software typeface design, then we can argue this out with some authority 
in there.

(Transcoding is such a PITA - avoid DV cameras if ever you can!)

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