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Here's the fontconfig for replacing MS core fonts with Liberation Fonts. Tried it and like it about the same as MS's:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- $Id: 60-liberation.conf,v 1.1 2008/03/27 11:14:42 root Exp root $ -->
<fontconfig>

<!-- Symlinking this file to /etc/fonts/conf.d/ will allow
you to use liberation fonts instead of the microsoft truetype fonts.
(from http://uwstopia.nl/blog/2007/05/free-your-fonts) -->

<!-- Liberation fonts -->
<match target="pattern">
<test qual="any" name="family"><string>Times New Roman</string></test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>Liberation Serif</string></edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern">
<test qual="any" name="family"><string>Arial</string></test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>Liberation Sans</string></edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern">
<test qual="any" name="family"><string>Courier</string></test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>Liberation Mono</string></edit>
</match>


</fontconfig>

https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/
Newer version here

md5sum wrong (f7d82c491914a318a6f0d426c5eb1432)

* updated to last tarball

It seems that there is a new version https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427791

On May 9, 2007, Red Hat announced the public release of these fonts under the trademark LIBERATION at the Red Hat Summit. There are three sets: Sans (a substitute for Arial, Albany, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, and Bitstream Vera Sans), Serif (a substitute for Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman, and Bitstream Vera Serif) and Mono (a substitute for Courier New, Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L, and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono).