On Monday 21 Dec 2009 21:16:45 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > If you have problems with the fonts, you can easily change them in > > Firefox using Edit -> Preferences. But please stop using Internet > > Explorer. > > He may need to turn on font anti-aliasing for non-MS programs. By > default, Windows XP does not anti-alias Firefox fonts, and they do > look terrible. >
I see. Interesting. Uri, can you try that? > >> My operating system is Windows XP. Sorry - no open source OS for me > >> yet. I'm waiting for Google OS - maybe I'll switch in a few years. > > > > Google Chrome OS is a stripped-down version of Linux that only gives you > > a browser. I don't know how any power-user can use it. You should use > > plain Linux instead. > > If Chrome OS will suit his needs, then he should know that the current > Ubuntu does everything that Chrome OS will do and more, except the > fast boot and integration with Google services out of the box. I should note that not only Ubuntu can do that, but that most desktop-oriented distributions can as well. Linux is not (only) Ubuntu. Regarding integration with Google services out of the box, that may not be a bad thing, because this also means that Google is spying on you, which you may not want: * http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/ * http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/12/13/1925206/ Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "The Human Hacking Field Guide" - http://shlom.in/hhfg Bzr is slower than Subversion in combination with Sourceforge. ( By: http://dazjorz.com/ ) _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
