Copyright © 2014-03-25 by Julius O. Smith III
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University
TrueType fonts are basically Windows fonts, and they greatly improve Web browser text display, in my opinion. Red Hat's font server already supports them (unlike native X Windows), but in release 6.1, you have to edit /etc/X11/fs/config to install them. I think everything is automatic as of release 6.2, but I haven't checked closely. Search the Red Hat website for 'truetype' for details.
I use the GNOME desktop environment and the sawfish window manager under GNOME simply because they are the defaults in the RedHat Linux distribution. I have no major complaints about either, relative to other window managers/environments under X windows.