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Continuing to Enjoy Ubuntu

For the past week I’ve been using Ubuntu (via the Install Inside Windows option) almost full-time on my home machine. I’m digging it so far and am thinking I’ll re-install it as dual-boot to get a bit more performance (although it really runs quite well as the Windows Install as a perk of being on

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Smooth Fonts for Ubuntu

Drop the file from this article into your home directory saved as .fonts.conf. Smoothed things out on the old laptop quite nicely.

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Updated April 25, 2007

To save the forum registration, here's contents of my .fonts.conf:

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XML:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

<fontconfig>

<match target="font">

<edit name="autohint" mode="assign">

<bool>true</bool>

</edit>

</match>

</fontconfig>