Ubuntu Linux Help

Just a quick post. Short but fun. Promise!

I was playing around with some of the applications on my Ubuntu desktop over lunch… and trying easter eggs that I’ve been emailed over time. There were quite a few, but these are the ones that I thought were the best. They should work on most flavours of Linux, I’d think.

Here are some of the best (in no particular order).

1) Cow Power!

In a terminal, type:

apt-get moo

And you’ll see this:

2) Ubuntu Fish.

Using Gnome? Try this…

Press alt+f2 and type

free the fish

see what happens…

(killall gnome-panel removes it). UPDATE: One of our readers (James) rightly pointed out in the comments below that we don’t have to kill the panel, simply right click on the fish and it’ll swim away. - Thanks!

3) Use the Force.

Using Open Office Calc, in a cell of the new document, type:

=Game("StarWars")

4) Team Photo

Using Open Office Writer, type:

StarWriterTeam

Then press f3 and see what happens.

5) The Book of Mozilla

Upen Firefox and type this in the address bar:

about:mozilla

You’ll need to know this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammon
and this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_book_of_mozilla

My favourite? Star Wars!