I ran a few tests to try to narrow this down, but I don't have a Ubuntu
12.04 system yet, so they may be of limited use.

I used this test script:

http://pastebin.com/tgmShFQm

I ran it on Windows with two different versions of libfreetype (while
keeping the same version of PyGame and everything else) and saw
different results - with one version all glyphs showed the same
"advance" metric, with the other they varied by two pixels over a wide
range of font sizes. I ran it on two Ubuntu machines and in both cases
all glyphs showed constant advance. However, in all cases I saw no
difference between the two versions of FreeMono that I tried, 20100919
and 20090104, as linked above by Sam.

It would be interesting to see what the result is on 12.04. Here are the
results from the systems I used:

http://pastebin.com/8SK3vRtT

About the script:

The script expects you to have the ttf fonts to test in the working
directory. I've focused on the results of the font.metrics method,
because as far as I can tell it correlates with the observed width of
rendered glyphs, but it eliminates some potential confounding factors
during rendering, such as kerning.

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