It works pretty well for X Windows. Actually, I don't remember where I got the font. I downloaded the Doric font from a link on a page. Basically, there are two types of fonts, Adobe Type 1 fonts and True Type fonts.
Adobe fonts are easier to use in Linux, that's what most Unixes use internally.
True Type fonts are vector based and therefore scalable and resizable. I run RedHat Linux 6.1. In Linux, there is a seperate process called a font server. You can configure one machine as a font server, install fonts there, and have X Windows on other machines use that machine as a font server. With RedHat Linux 6.1, the seperate font server supports True Type fonts as well as Type 1 fonts.