Re: OSNews RedHat 8 review & AbiWord

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 16:30:16 EDT

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    On 1 Oct 2002, Dom Lachowicz wrote:

    > > > screenshot which includes AbiWord with some pointed
    > > > comments typed into it:
    > > > http://osnews.beosjournal.org/img/1842/redhat4.jpg

    > > There was a bug that complianed about the chunky fonts problem in the
    > > redhat beta, i dont know what RedHat have done to break abiword.

    here is the bug i was talking about
    http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4010

    it includes a link to a redhat bug ...

    > The best retort we can come up with is to post the 1.1.1 release this
    > Friday with yummy Xft goodness. OOo looks dreadful here (on RedHat null)

    unstable release soon! yay!

    > - the fonts are perhaps worse than the old Abi fonts. Unlike OOo we look
    > like we even fit into the RedHat destkop. If we don't turn this author's
    > head with all of our busywork and eye candy, we can always flame him/her
    > or go mope in a corner :)

    A Dom sanctioned flame war, excellent! ;)

    > Dom

    Later
    Alan



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