Have you noticed that many websites don't quite look the same on Linux than they do other computers?
This is because many of the fonts web designers expect to be installed on any computer don't generally come with Linux. You can install them, however, and make websites look much more attractive and 'as the designer intended'.
This is an update to anyweb's tutorial How to Install Microsoft TTF Fonts in Red Hat. Since that tutorial was written, it is much easier with most modern distributions to install the fonts.
Why do you want the Microsoft fonts?
Most Linux distributions ship without this pack of fonts distributed by Microsoft, but most websites assume that you have this base set of fonts installed. What that practically means is that many websites will have weird-looking fonts and will not display as the designer intended. Installing the fonts makes your Linux web browsing experience much more familiar and again, things look as intended!
How to Install
In most distributions, it is now very simple to download and install the font pack in one step.
Go to your package manager or software management application (e.g. Ubuntu Software Centre) and search for msttcorefonts. Choose to install that package.
If you can't find or don't want to use the graphical package manager, you can go to a terminal and do:
Code:
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
(for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.)
Code:
su -c "yum install msttcorefonts"
(for Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, etc.)
Once the package has been downloaded and installed, you will need to log out and log back in so that your web browser so that it has access to the fonts. Fire up your browser again and you should start to see web pages rendering in the way they were designed to, with those Microsoft fonts.
If you are still having problems and the new fonts aren't showing up, try running this command as root:
I'm thinking of following a cheaper linux course cuz I find that RHCT is a bit too expensive for my budget. Just wondering your opinions on the following.
I've read quite a bit over the web and I still don't seem to understand how linux drivers work. For example getting a wireless driver to work work in linux system. I've read stuff about loading the kernel module and then adding the module to a certain file so that it actually loads etc. I've seen examples of how people do it but they still confuse me and when trying them out I haven't gotten it to work yet. Could someone please help me understand or point me in the right direction of how this works?
This is the best article I found on it, but still haven't trouble understanding it.
It's that time of year again: a new Ubuntu release (or Kubuntu, if that's your thing). Canonical has just released Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx. This is a long term support release, meaning its supported period is far longer than that of normal releases. It comes with the latest and greatest the Free software world has to offer, while also adding some Ubuntu-specific features, of course.
Firstly let me say that I've tried su - and /sbin/ifconfig it's not there. For some reason I seem to have "lost" it or something because ever since I installed the distro a while back it hasn't been there. I'm running Debian. I do have iwconfig, which for most of my needs works but I'm trying to get the loopback (lo) interface running but without ifconfig that's kind of difficult :P
I do have commands for ifup and ifdown but they don't work because (I'm assuming from reading error outputs) that they call on ifconfig.
If someone could help me out on how to fix/get ifconfig i'd greatly appreciate it.
I am thinking on installing Debian squeeze to replace my ubuntu 9.10 instead of going to 10.04 but I want to know how to add repositories among other things,can anyone please tell me how to step by step?
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The distribution itself comes on a single live CD which kicks off with a GRUB boot menu. The GRUB screen gives the user the ability to boot normally, into the live environment, into a console or via various safe modes, or to perform a media check. Additional menus along the bottom of the screen offer support for additional languages, screen resolutions and kernel options.
Booting into the live environment presents the user with a blue-themed KDE desktop. The root and guest account passwords are displayed at the top of the screen and the application menu is displayed in the classic KDE style. Icons on the desktop provide short-cuts to the command line, the user's folders and the system's installer. Along the taskbar are icons providing the user with links to various tools to configure the desktop and to configure the computer (more on the differences between those two shortly). There are also launchers to browse the user's files and start the package manager.
The installer starts off by asking the user to partition their hard disk. The partition editor has an interesting approach to its job, where almost all the controls are either buttons or sliders. While this took a few moments for me to get used to, the layout will probably appeal to less experienced users. Once the disk has been divided up, the installer formats the drive and copies the necessary files over from the CD. This happened without any confirmation, taking me a bit by surprise as generally an installer will warn the user before wiping a partition. Once the copy process is complete, the installer asks the user to configure the boot loader. After configuring the boot loader, the installer locked up for a minute and, finally, showed me a screen asking me to "halt computer".
i have acer emachines atom notebook with fedora preinstalled and it does not have cd drive.i has 160 hdd. i coped xp from pendrive but it not getting started. the file system it is showing ext4 and others. i want remove them, convert the hdd into ntfs and install xp.i have to some project work urgently.HOW DO I REMOVE EXT4 PARTITION OF FEDORA AND MAKE A NTFS PARTITION WITHOUT A CD DRIVE. I HAVE USB PORT TO HAVE A PENDRIVE.....
I have the following problem. I have a usb stick which I've used in linux and at work I work with windows at work. Before ejecting my usb stick I forgot to empty my trash in Linux. Now I'm at work and it says my usb stick is full. I have searched all over with google and I can't find a way to delete my .trash from my usb stick. Formatting it doesn't help either. Does anyone know how to do this without having to boot in linux?
