Fixing Font Rendering In Chrome Fedora

Fonts in general aren't as pretty in Fedora out of the box as they are in Ubuntu.  But the Chrome rendering is horrible.  I had to add this little gem to my ~/.fonts.conf file.

<match target="font">
 <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
    <bool>true</bool>
 </edit>
 <edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
    <bool>true</bool>
 </edit>
 <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
    <const>hintslight</const>
 </edit>
</match>

Ubuntu 15.04 Broken Upstart / Working Systemd

Ubuntu 15.04 I believe has switched over to upstart which in turn has broken more then a few 3rd party apps I had installed.

For example whenever I tried to install plex media server I would get the following error:

"initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused"


Here's the fix that worked for me:

sudo dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /sbin/initctl
ln -s /bin/true /sbin/initctl

Credit for this little tweak: https://www.nesono.com/?q=node/368