You write awesome tutorials, because your genuine interest shines through to the user reading. (It’s a talent when you can take something like “file permissions on a gnu/linux system” and turn it into a fun and interesting experience!) Thanks.

/opt is listed in the guide — “Optional software – like desktop environments etc.”

/var is for “files to which the system writes data during the course of its operation”. (http://www.linfo.org/var.html)

You’ll often find /var used for application data, including things like your MySQL databases, for example, as well as cache files, Unix mail storage and any other application data that isn’t really specific to one user.

I have updated the guide, thanks for pointing out its absence.

For good measure, please share what would you do today, in 2010, if you were setting out to self-host from scratch? I, for one, have been thinking about self-hosting for years now, but never got around to getting started. You, on the other hand, the veteran, have had it going for years.

Thanks for posting the errors you found. It’s useful to know the details of why these fonts might not work. Unfortunately it doesn’t bring me closer to a solution yet, but I appreciate you taking the time to post the information.

You’re right in that DfontSplitter uses fondu — any result you get with fondu should therefore exactly the same as the result you get from DfontSplitter.

Error1:
The convention is tha TrueType fonts should have an em-size which is a power of 2. Bht this font has a size of 1000. This is not an error, but…

Error2:
The font conatins errors
Self Intersectiong
Wrong Direction
Missing Points at Exrema

BTW1: I had the same problem with fondu, but I think Dfontsplitters uses fondu…
BTW2: I had this problem converting Mac Helvetica, as others posted.