The lack of this is the primary reason I don't consider running Fedora over Ubuntu. Shallow, perhaps, but when you stare at a computer screen all day, good font

The lack of this is the primary reason I don't consider running Fedora over Ubuntu. Shallow, perhaps, but when you stare at a computer screen all day, good font rendering matters. There is a guy who maintains a set of Fedora packages with versions of Cairo and Xft with the relevant patches for that beautiful font rendering: http://www.infinality.net/blog/?p=5 http://www.infinality.net/blog/?p=5 I've always been reluctant to jump to Fedora and rely on this guy to keep up his work, though. EDIT: Looks like this guy already has these patched packages (and some Freetype tweaks too) ready for Fedora 14, see his most recent post. I still really wish this would get out of the "some dude has to patch it in" territory and just become the standard font rendering configuration for Linux distros besides Ubuntu.