Making Linux Fun?

Hi Everyone :)

Just setting up some services on my Linux system and had a thought.

There has been tones of books on all the little extras one can do in Windows, like changing startup screen etc.

Yet there's nothing likt this for Linux. I wondered if anyone ever done anything they thought fun and if the could share this with everyone else, write like a short tutorial :)

I think this will be a greate fun for all of us. And if things like this start to appear, this could make Linux just a bit more popular.

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Originally Posted by nightcat

Hi Everyone :)
There has been tones of books on all the little extras one can do in Windows, like changing startup screen etc.

Yet there's nothing likt this for Linux.

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You don't need a ton of books, you can change anything and everything relatively easily on Linux/BSD ;)

Anything specific you're looking for?

If you like games like Russian Roulette you can make Linux fun:

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "You live"

1 in 6 chances you won't unlink your file system :)

Try the "Linux Cookbook".

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Originally Posted by brokencrow

Try the "Linux Cookbook".

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I have the Linux Cookbook version 1.2 in .pdf format on my web site.

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Originally Posted by gore

If you like games like Russian Roulette you can make Linux fun:

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "You live"

1 in 6 chances you won't unlink your file system :)

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I'll stick to basics, thank you very much;)

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Originally Posted by brokencrow

Try the "Linux Cookbook".

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Will do, as soon as I finished the next dozen of books I need to cover for my work :(.

But thanks for the advise :)

Linux will never be Windows. It's a different world in many ways,
and of less interest to most users. Less GUI, more shell. I'm
reminded of an old Unix joke:

"There's only two things that ever came out of Berkeley: Unix and LSD."

And my addition to that joke is: "...the one I know, but I'm still learning Unix."

:)

Don't you mean LSD and BSD?

He-heh...like I said...

This one's worth a printout, nightcat:

http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt/cours...unix.util.html

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Originally Posted by brokencrow

This one's worth a printout, nightcat:

http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt/cours...unix.util.html

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Nice link, although, given some time, I'd rather learn how to be one ;)

http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Didnt-Kn.../dp/0782129358