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Asked: 2010-11-10 11:11:24 +0800 CST

Easter eggs in Ubuntu

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I just found out about the free the fish easter egg available in Ubuntu:

  1. Press Alt + F2

  2. Enter this: free the fish

Are there any more easter eggs available in Ubuntu? What are they?

easter-egg

19 Answers

  1. Here is another package that is just a joke : sl, standing for Steam Locomotive.

    Just download sl and then run sl in a terminal.

    It has been designed for people confusing ls and sl. See manual page for more exciting features!

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  2. Watch Star Wars in terminal telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

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  3. Not gonna spoil it for you with a screenshot, but in a terminal try: apt-get moo

    And then, if you have aptitude Install aptitude installed take a look at:

    aptitude moo
aptitude -v moo
aptitude -vv moo
aptitude -vvv moo
(etc)

    (Bonus: if you enjoy this then install cowsayInstall cowsay for hours of command-line entertainment!)

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  4. For 11.04 and earlier:

    1. Press Alt + F2
    2. Type in gegls from outer space and hit enter.
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  5. I just found a quite funny mix between "cowsay" and "fortune":
    First, install both cowsay and fortune

    sudo apt-get install cowsay fortune-mod

    Now, pass fortune as the argument for cowsay:

    fortune | cowsay

    A cow will now tell you something clever about life ;) Have fun!

    enter image description here

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  6. Lord of The Rings Easter Egg

    1. Open Terminal

    2. type calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.lotr -A 365 and hit Enter

    LoTR Easter Egg

    You can also try these

    calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.pagan -A 365

    calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music -A 365

    calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.computer -A 365

    calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history -A 365

    You can get a list of all calendars available by:

    ls /usr/share/calendar/

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  7. Python 

    import this

    enter image description here

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  8. apt-get moo

    alt text

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  9. In Firefox, go to about:robots

    OO.org (doesn't work in LO rc4 on MAverick): http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Easter_Eggs

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  10. Clicking on the fish with the mouse will make it go away, to get rid of it for good. you can type killall gnome-panel into the terminal. Also, as an easter egg, it is an undocumented feature.

    BONUS: Did you know that, the US Federal Government will not use any software that has undocumented features (aka Easter Eggs)?

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