Liberation Mono; still the best Free font for programming

It’s official, Liberation Mono is still the best Free font for programming. I’ve been using Liberation Mono in my text editors since it was first announced having tried various other fonts with varying states of Freeness. Then along came the Droid fonts and I thought I’d try them too. I have two criteria for programming… Continue reading Liberation Mono; still the best Free font for programming

Building programs and libraries from source on Fedora

Packages built from source use the prefix /usr/local by default which is not set up in the in the Fedora system and library paths. The majority of the documentation on the net seems to suggest Fedora users just pass –prefix=/usr to configure scripts but this can obviously cause problems in the long term (writing over… Continue reading Building programs and libraries from source on Fedora