Weird font rendering in Netbeans on Linux

Question

I installed NetBeans 6.8 on Linux (Mint, based on Ubuntu 9.10) and I can see that font rendering is very weird. Fonts in NetBeans are just so thin unlike any other program, be it gEdit, Eclipse, Firefox, or whatever.

Does anyone know if it's possible to make fonts in NetBeans look bolder?

Bonus question: AFAIK both Eclipse and NetBeans are written in Java. What gives?

Since a picture's worth a thousand words... screenshot (it won't let me post images)

Answer 1

Tools > Options > Fonts & Colors

You can set font to Bold on the right Font menu.

Check this post on Sun's blog.

I think Eclipse and NetBeans use different libraries to render fonts.