The DejaVu family of fonts are supposed to be a 'better' version of the Bitstream Vera fonts -- they "provide a wider range of characters while maintaining the original look and feel". Seems to be updated more often as well.

http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Looking at that on the old CRT I'm using until my laptop comes back from IBM, the anti-aliased screenshots look very blurry. I could take or leave subpixel hinting on my LCD, but I actively dislike anti-aliasing on a CRT.

I second Rob's recommendation of DejaVu. And for those using X11 bitmap fonts, Terminus.