I second that. Liberation Mono rocks. And it is updated somewhat frequently, so it might be worth checking for a newer version or to install on a Mac. (they put a dot in the middle of zeros a while back, for instance)

https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/

Agreed. I can't go past consolas on windows. With linux I wasn't aware of liberation (thanks for that !!), but I've always downloaded courier new.

For linux, I've switched from Liberation to Inconsolata, which was inspired by Consolas; you might want to check it out:

http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

Thanks dude.