I run LTSP both at home and at work, as well as a ****load of older X-Terminals which definitely benefit from a font server (especially a font server that can serve truetype fonts). Jima wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list