Linuxant is a company that provides software drivers for conexant modems and chipsets to run on linux machines. These types of modems are commonly known as ‘winmodems’ as their software is designed for use on Microsoft Windows. Linuxant at one time provided the software for free but recently they have been charging money (currently $15) for the drivers. They still provide a ‘free’ set of drivers but this limits modem speed to 14.4Kbps.

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After installing Slackware linux on my laptop I noticed the fonts were not as clean looking as they are in windows. The fonts looked as if they were rendered in the wrong resolution even though the system had the correct resolution set for those fonts.

I wanted to use the windows fonts such as ‘tahoma,’ and ‘verdana,’ as they are visually appealing while still being readable. Windows uses a different font resolution to that of linux; default 96 dots per inch (dpi) for windows, and a default of 75 dpi for linux. So all we had to do was install the windows fonts and change the dpi in linux.

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Get the kernel source

Download the latest (or older version if desired) from “The Linux Kernel Archives.” The file is available to download in either tar.bz2 or tar.gz formats. The tar.bz2 files are smaller in size for those who need a quick download or have limited storage space.

N.B. You will need to be root to do most of these steps

Save the file to the /usr/src directory.

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