Better looking fonts in Gentoo, a few interesting pieces of software and hardened Gentoo
Posted by Sayamindu 4 years, 1 month ago
Finally, I managed to get the fonts to look good in my notebook’s LCD screen. The steps to do this are as follows:
- Do a
USE="bindist cjk" emerge freetype. - From the GNOME fonts preference dialog box, go to “Details…” and set “Hinting” to “None
That should do the trick (I am using the BitStream Vera fonts).
On screen writing - using Gromit
Gromit is a tool which allows you to simply draw on the screen, ignoring any window-borders. This can be extremely useful while giving presentations - especially hands-on demo kind of things.
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Sharing files - using EPittance
EPittance uses WebDAV and Rendezvous to share file among systems using GNOME 2.8 (I think Mac OSX users would also be able to access the shares). It does not support authentication yet - but its good enough for me in its present shape - so I’m happily using it.
Setting up Gentoo Hardened remotely
Recently, I have been setting up Hardened Gentoo on a remote server (over ssh) - and it has been fun (in general). The only scary part was when I had to reboot the machine to get the new security optimised kernel up and running - since the server has some pretty new hardware features (SATA and other fancy stuff), and I was not sure whether I had configured the kernel correctly for those new features. Had it refused to boot into the new kernel, the system would have been down for the entire weekend - but anyway, it did boot successfully - and right now, it is merrily recompiling gcc, glibc, binutils. Next step is to do a emerge -e world.
