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Re:Ultimate Linux on the Desktop by XorNot on Friday January 20, 2017 @10:50AM (#13444623)
The infinality fontconfig patch completely fixes this, but no distribution ships it because of patent encumberence.
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Re:Ultimate Linux on the Desktop by floatboth on Friday January 20, 2017 @12:50PM (#13445490)
Hmm, the FreeBSD port print/freetype2 has LCD_FILTERING ("Sub-pixel rendering (patented)") enabled by default since 27 Nov 2014.

infinality is obsolete. Freetype 2.7.0 ships a new interpreter (that's… based on infinality. but faster and simpler) http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2016-07/...

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Re:Ultimate Linux on the Desktop by XorNot on Saturday January 21, 2017 @02:30AM (#13449268)
I'll have to check if I'm missing something but I haven't been happy with the effect on Ubuntu despite hearing this for a while.
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