Thanks to the enormous help I have received on this list and Sergio Brandano's excellent page for installation on Lombard powerbooks, I'm now up and running woody and X with very few problems.
For various reasons I decided to use Blackbox as my window manager, as I want something more stripped down than Enlightenment. My dilemma is that I don't know how to specify a nice clear font, that doesn't suffer from the illegibility of bold type on my screen. I enjoy working with 9pt Geneva (writing) or 9pt Monaco (coding) in MacOS. Is there any chance of getting similar display clarity on Linux? Thanks for any help. Rory