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Linux operating systems are popularly known for the poor font collections and also for the lack of facilities for installing fonts directly. You may have a collection of over 2000 fonts but without knowing how to install them is pathetic. Here are a couple of methods for installing fonts.

1. Log in to your account and press Ctrl+L.

2. Now type gksudo nautilus.

3. Enter the administrator password.

4. In the address bar type fonts:// and press enter

5. Add whatever fonts you have to this and your new fonts are installed!

1. Log in to your account and open the home folder.

2. Now create a folder called 'fonts' (without the quotes).

3. Copy all your font files to this folder.

4. Open up terminal and type mv fonts .fonts and press enter.

5. Restart the applications you are using and viola!!! Your fonts are installed!!!

That's it for now folks!!! Ba bye!!!

Linux operating systems are popularly known for the poor font collections and also for the lack of facilities for installing fonts directly. You may have a collection of over 2000 fonts but without knowing how to install them is pathetic. Here are a couple of methods for installing fonts.

1. Log in to your account and press Ctrl+L.

2. Now type gksudo nautilus.

3. Enter the administrator password.

4. In the address bar type fonts:// and press enter

5. Add whatever fonts you have to this and your new fonts are installed!

1. Log in to your account and open the home folder.

2. Now create a folder called 'fonts' (without the quotes).

3. Copy all your font files to this folder.

4. Open up terminal and type mv fonts .fonts and press enter.

5. Restart the applications you are using and viola!!! Your fonts are installed!!!

That's it for now folks!!! Ba bye!!!

This is my first day with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron in my laptop. For the entire day, I did not use Vista. Anyways, the day started very early for me at 6 AM!!! I got up from my bed with bubbling with enthusiasm to try out the new OS. So I just roamed around the OS. The first thing I tried was to change the wallpaper. I got only four wallpapers along with the OS out of which 3 are amazing and the other is a plain colour. Then I tried to use wifi. Because of poor connectivity, wifi was very slow. But anyways, I tried to install some packages in the evening using the package manager and things worked out fine. Here some of my points which can be improved in the OS
1. More wallpapers need to be given.
2. Try bundling Combiz and Wine with the usual setup
3. Firefox 3 (Onyl Firefox 3 Beta 5) is available with the installation
4. VLC Media Player and some codecs for mp3 by default.
5. Open Office suite
6. Audio is very low in my Inspiron 1525. This definitely needs to be improved.
I will post more blogs on customizing the OS by installing various cool softwares and making some small tweaks in the following days. Till then, c ya!!!