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Make your LILO boot screen more exciting with animated pictures! From the author's web page:

Since mid-2001, most Linux distributions include some patched versions of LILO (the LInux LOader) that support VGA or VESA graphical modes and make it possible to have a nice background image while booting. Starting with SuSE Linux 7.2, the SuSE distribution includes an interesting extension to LILO that allows a programmer to define some callback functions that are triggered when some events occur (key pressed, timeout, ...). It gives a much greater flexibility than the other extensions that are provided by most of the other Linux distributions, including the new graphical modes that have recently been added to the official version of LILO 22.x.

While testing the SuSE version of LILO and the helper program mkbootmsg, I was wondering if the timer callbacks together with the function that copies parts of the image to the screen could be used for creating animations. I quickly found out that it was indeed possible to enhance the boot screen with animations. Since my friends liked the results, I decided to share them on this web site. ... These animated boot screens have been tested with SuSE Linux 7.2 and 7.3. If you are using another distribution such as Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake or a custom set of packages, you will not get the expected results if you keep the version of LILO included in your distribution.

Before you try this, have a boot floppy ready. If something doesn't go as planned, you could RENDER YOUR SYSTEM UNBOOTABLE. You have been warned.

License: free

The portable demonstration of AA-lib Ascii Art GFX library.

License: unknown

Additional System Requirements: AA-lib

Bfm, the Brutal File Manager, is a combined file manager and first person shooter game. The basic idea is to represent different folders on your computer as rooms in a 3D environment. Then, armed to your teeth you walk through these rooms and delete files by shooting them.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

Displays a Deskmate on your desktop. A Deskmate can be any image you want. The program accepts any image format supported by Imlib. Features include "always on top", follow focus. Future features will include AI and animation.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

• GTK+
• Imlib

FaceBuilder is a little toy application that lets you construct faces by putting together eyes, nose, mouth, head, hair and some additional items. You can also move, scale and rotate each of those face-parts as you like. The results can be saved to XML files. FaceBuilder currently provides ~100 faceparts in total.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Ruby and Ruby bindings for Glade, Gtk and GnomeCanvas

You can place fountain objects that spray out colored balls which fall down the screen and bounce off blocks that you can position. Very cool to look at and mess around with.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: SDL