One Laptop Per Child
By now you’ll all have heard: The OLPC is available for sale on a “buy one, donate one” basis, for $400 USD, which worked out to about $430 CAD for me including the shipping.
By now you’ll all have heard: The OLPC is available for sale on a “buy one, donate one” basis, for $400 USD, which worked out to about $430 CAD for me including the shipping.
A week ago, a reader named Erik contacted me regarding font rendering on Linux with a question (for which I sadly did not have the answer), and some highly interesting news for Linux Firefox users. In short, by supplying a little environment variable when you start up Firefox (also works with Thunderbird), you can instruct Firefox to render fonts using Fontconfig instead of Pango.
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