gtk vs gtk2+xft ???

[Ed]

On Thursday 12 February 2004 08:30 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 02/11/04 22:13, Chris Brault wrote:
> > You are absolutely right,
> >
> >>No, that is XFS. XFT is a font rendering system.
> >
> > That XFT is the default font rendering system for
> > Fedora, Redhat, Mandrake ans others. Sorry about that,
> > I must be blind.
>
> No, that is xfs (lower case).  xft is a font rendering system in XFree86.

I am late in the discussion and did not see previous threads.....along this 
line though.......are the differences in the system used for font rendering 
the reason why I like the rendering better in RH of Mandrake better than say 
Debian based distro's?