Just a minor detail really, but after installing debian squeeze using debootstrap, my x-fonts were really ugly.
It turns out that an appropriate way to clean them up was:
- install ttf-bitstream-vera, and set the system fonts to use this font
- in ‘appearance’ set ‘subpixel smoothing’, ‘slight’ hinting
- personally I use 10-point fonts, and 96dpi, which seems to give a reasonable compromise between information density, and readability, on an Eeepc 901, for me