Red Hat releases free replacements for Windows core fonts

#1 22nd May 2007, 02:53 AM

Last week, Red Hat announced the release of three Liberation typefaces as free replacements for the Windows core fonts Arial, Courier New, and Times New Roman -- respectively, the leading sans serif, monospaced, and serif fonts in use today.

http://applications.linux.com/applic...0.shtml?tid=13

Wayne

#2 22nd May 2007, 02:56 AM

I downloaded the tar.gz file rather than the RPM and extracted the fonts to:

/usr/share/fonts/liberation

and as root ran:

fc-cache -v -f

Wayne

leigh123linux · #3 22nd May 2007, 02:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rondonjin

Last week, Red Hat announced the release of three Liberation typefaces as free replacements for the Windows core fonts Arial, Courier New, and Times New Roman -- respectively, the leading sans serif, monospaced, and serif fonts in use today.

http://applications.linux.com/applic...0.shtml?tid=13

Wayne

Thanks for the info I have just downloaded them

#4 22nd May 2007, 02:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leigh123@linux

Thanks for the info I have just downloaded them

Love the name 'liberation'

Wayne

***Dan*** · #5 22nd May 2007, 03:39 AM

Got 'em.

Thanks Wayne.

Dan

Seve · #6 22nd May 2007, 03:50 AM

Hello Wayne:

Thanks

Seve

Zero-Override · #7 22nd May 2007, 03:52 AM

will DL em to

bouchecl · #8 22nd May 2007, 07:49 AM

Why bother doing it the hard way when version 1.9 of the fonts are available in the extras repo (for FC6, at least).

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# yum install liberation-fonts

The version in the repo is more recent than the one on RH site, and looks much better in gnome-terminal.

#9 22nd May 2007, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bouchecl

Why bother doing it the hard way when version 1.9 of the fonts are available in the extras repo (for FC6, at least).

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# yum install liberation-fonts

The version in the repo is more recent than the one on RH site, and looks much better in gnome-terminal.

Because they weren't only going onto a Fedora box and there was no mention of them being available in the Fedora repos.

What's hard about running fc-cache?

Edit: I thought 2 was more recent than 1.9

liberation-fonts-ttf-2.tar.gz

Wayne

#10 22nd May 2007, 09:23 AM

If anyone is interested I also have these fonts:

Wayne

#11 22nd May 2007, 02:36 PM

ah nice work Red Hat.

at least its one more thing they can tick of the (possible things MS can sue our user base over violating) :P

iamroot · #12 1st June 2007, 12:33 PM

How do I use these fonts?

RahulSundaram · #13 1st June 2007, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iamroot

How do I use these fonts?

It is installed by default in Fedora 7.

# yum install liberation-fonts