[Fedora-livecd-list] Console fonts

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:52 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:47:45AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > Note: anaconda no longer uses bogl and hasn't for quite a while now.  If
> > you want anything that can't be displayed by latarcyrheb-sun16, then use
> > X.
> 
> What's the level of support like for X?  I quite often find Fedora
> installs in text mode, for reasons which aren't usually very clear.

X works great...  and installs should happen graphically unless you have
"low"[1] memory systems or weirdo graphics hardware.  And then there's
vnc, etc, etc.

> It seems that Anaconda supports two parallel UIs (newt & Gtk) which
> must be quite an overhead for development.

Yep, welcome to one of my own personal hells.

Jeremy

[1] Depends on the install method for what counts as "low" as well as
arch