Kernel Source as Your Screen Saver January 10, 2008
Posted by gnukathryn in Installing, Nifty!, Software, Terminal.trackback
I came across this blog post in one of the feeds I read daily. I thought it was cool and I wanted to share. It’s a way to use the Phosphor screen saver that comes with xscreensaver to display a random bit of the Linux kernel source.
I have to admit, I don’t use a screen saver. They drive me nuts. My screen powers down after 1 minute. And I like it that way. But this is cool enough and novel enough that I might try it, at least for a few days.
The directions are written for a Debian based system, so I’ll have to play around a bit and see if I can get it to work with Fedora. But everything seems bog standard. It uses a small program the author wrote to display the contents of a random file in a directory (this will also help me out in some scripting I’m doing for mplayer).
It of course assumes that you do have the xscreensaver package and said package contains the Phosphor screensaver. It also assumes that you have the kernel source on your system as well. It’s also necessary to compile the author’s program (which should only be `make` and `make install`).
If I get this to work, I’ll definitely report back. I’ll also report back on Argument Shuffle.
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