Liberation Fonts Increase Interoperability For Linux Users

hweimer writes "Most problems when opening Word documents under GNU/Linux are due to missing fonts. Therefore, Red Hat published a set of fonts metric-compatible with the Windows core fonts last year. However, there were some concerns regarding the licensing that prevented many other distros to ship them. We finally managed to settle these problems, leading to better document interoperability for all GNU/Linux users."

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[pete-classic]

Q: Excuse me, is this the People's Liberation Font?
A: Fuck off! We're the People's Font of Judea!

Re:This is good, but

[cerberusss]

Although using the MS stuff (Courier New and Times or Arial) together in a document looks pretty bad, the fonts themselves look very nice and modern. I think Computer Modern looks... oldfashioned.