Good fonts for Linux (also free!)

download here
and unpack to /usr/share/fonts
100% Windows™ compatible
Rendering examples: #1 | #2

.fonts.conf

updated 2010.10.21 for KDE4/Qt4
rename upon downloading and put into your $HOME directory or
save as /etc/fonts/conf.d/99-my-fonts.conf.
Mind the leading dot!

Linux stuff:

Why Linux is not (yet) ready for the desktop aka Linux problems

AptoSID remastering how to

AptoSID 2011-03 Πόνος (Linux LiveCD) WiFi ready respin

with added networking and system tools

Other useful files:

rpm/yum wrappers for Debian/Ubuntu v0.2

rpm wrapper for Debian/Ubuntu (using dpkg and dpkg-query)
yum wrapper for Debian/Ubuntu (using apt-get and apt-cache)

Microsoft™ DirectX™/Direct3D libraries for Wine

5.5MB 7z archive - most DLLs from August 2008 redistributable

Must have native Windows™ libraries for Wine

3MB 7z archive - full list

xorg.conf for NVIDIA GPUs for X.org server <=1.7

no description really :)

NVIDIA configuration file for X.org server >=1.8

put into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory :)

Miscellaneous stuff:

www.savetheplanetprotest.com: My Demands

Leaked Megafon SMS messages (indexed by Yandex)

html in a zip archive

On the issue of good looking fonts for Linux

Added on the 27th of October 2010.

This website is dedicated to the issue of fonts rendering in Linux. There are two main problems which are being overlooked by Linux distros: at first they don't provide a good fonts configuration, thus even if you have fine crisp fonts obtained elsewhere they still will look ugly and blurry. Secondly, by default Linux distros don't provide good enough fonts or fonts which are compatible with Windows' ones. This of course leads to multiple problems: web pages look different, documents sent by people from Windows PC's quite often have a broken formatting. There's another problem to solve. Even though people know that Windows fonts can be copied to their Linux boxes, Windows Vista and Windows 7 fonts are incompatible with freetype hinting technology. It's a bug that needs to be resolved, but in the meantime people want free good fonts to just look good.

This website solves all these problems for you. Just download the free fonts listed on the top of the page and install .fonts.conf into your home directory, e.g. /home/user
This file has the correctly set autohinging (hinting) and provides the best results only if your freetype is compiled with BCI (Byte Code Interpreter). However mind that it's optimized for RGB monitors, so if you have another pixels orientation you should edit it accordingly. So if you want free crisp truetype (TTF) fonts which look best on your TFT LCD monitor, which have the same or similar appearance to the ClearType technology implemented by Microsoft, then you have come to the right page. The set of free fonts provided here contains 100% Windows compatible fonts (aka corefonts).

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Last update: Sun  Apr 8 2012

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