The Vera fonts that were donated to GNOME by Bitstream are very nice, imho.
http://bitstream.com/categories/products/fonts/vera/index.html
mini-Aurora update:
starting the initial work on the 8.* tree. forgot how much pain it really was. :)
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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