On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Bret Baptist wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 6:17 pm, Ryan Hayle wrote:
> > People still actually use external font servers? But why? What's the
> > point? Unless you're still on xf3 for some silly reason; I'm just not
> > aware of any apparent benefits. Anyone care to enlighten me?
>
> It also helps if you have multiple X servers running. Only having the fonts
> loaded into the font server saves on memory. Not that too many people are
> doing that on a home desktop.
It's definitely useful for LTSP [1].
What? No one else is running LTSP at home? ;)
Jima
1. The Linux Terminal Server Project, http://www.ltsp.org
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