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Try Fira Sans A Free Font Family Commissioned By Mozilla

"Complimenting Erik Spiekermann for Fira Sans, his latest typeface, seems a little like telling the Iron Chef that he really knows how to cook. Yeah. Duh. We might even ask whether Fira has an unfair advantage over other fonts from 2013, because it�s built on the adamantium-plated skeleton of FF Meta, which Spiekermann has had 25+ years to polish (see also FF Meta Serif and FF Unit)".

- Matthew Butterick on Typographica.org

Try Fira Sans

- to install the fonts system-wide:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/FiraSans
sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/opentype/FiraSans
sudo cp ~/Fira*/WEB/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/FiraSans/
sudo cp ~/Fira*/OTF/Fira* /usr/share/fonts/opentype/FiraSans/

- to install Fira Sans / Fira Mono for your user only:

mkdir -p ~/.fonts/FiraSans
cp ~/Fira*/WEB/*.ttf ~/.fonts/FiraSans/
cp ~/Fira*/OTF/Fira* ~/.fonts/FiraSans/

Then, update the font cache:

sudo fc-cache -f -v

Also see: Easily Download And Install Google Web Fonts In Ubuntu With TypeCatcher

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Ubuntu Sound not working on HP Pavillion dv9000 Using the ICH8 Family

I spent quite a bit of time researching my problem and found the solution at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg549082.html Let me copy the relevant bits:

 cd /tmp wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.16rc2.tar.bz2 tar -jxvf alsa-driver-1.0.16rc2.tar.bz2 cd alsa-driver-1.0.16rc2/ ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel && make sudo make install sudo cp ./modules/snd-hda-intel.ko /lib/modules/$( uname -r )/ubuntu/media/snd-hda-intel/ sudo depmod -a sudo reboot 

Make sure that you check the ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver directory to see if a new version has been released.

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Ubuntu Font Family Version 0 80 with Mono at last! is Released

Ubuntu font family is a completely free, open font sets that are release under the Ubuntu font license. Although its not that long ago they were released thus some of the standard sets such as the the "Mono" fonts were at the beta stage previously. But today the Ubuntu Font Page made it official that with the latest 0.80 version, now the "Mono" version is also included!.

If youre a webmaster then you can easily "install" these fonts thanks to the Google web-fonts API. These fonts are inspired by the Sans-Serif fonts and comes pre-optimized for desktops and mobile device screens especially according to Canonical.

Although personally, at smaller sizes I find it a bit difficult to read (could be a personal thing :D) and in general Im not quite fond of the overall "square-y" type physical attribute which again I find it a bit hard to read (in comparison with the beautiful Arial font for instance.

Anyhow, if youre looking for a completely free fonts with minimal of restrictions (if none at all) then why not visit this Ubuntu Fonts page and download it!.

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