Marcus Meissner schreef:

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:03:58PM +0100, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

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When I boot the pc, I have noticed that I don't always get the same background in Grub.

Most of the times it's a standard opensuse green background, a bit boring but with stylish gradients.

But sometimes I get cute little animated pinguins in an antarctic landscape. It looks like a level from pingus (you know, the lemmings clone).

After reading menu.lst, I think that gfxmenu is taking care of the background. I'm curious why it isn't always the same.

Because its not always Winter or Christmas ;) It is a date dependend easter egg.

Lol, thanks, that explains a lot. But there must be a random generator involved too? Because if I reboot x times, I only see the penguins 1 time and x-1 times I see the boring green stuff. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sunday 25 January 2009 16:17, Marcus Meissner wrote:

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:15:35PM +0100, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

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Marcus Meissner schreef:

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On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:03:58PM +0100, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

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When I boot the pc, I have noticed that I don't always get the same background in Grub.

Most of the times it's a standard opensuse green background, a bit boring but with stylish gradients.

But sometimes I get cute little animated pinguins in an antarctic landscape. It looks like a level from pingus (you know, the lemmings clone).

After reading menu.lst, I think that gfxmenu is taking care of the background. I'm curious why it isn't always the same.

Because its not always Winter or Christmas ;) It is a date dependend easter egg.

Lol, thanks, that explains a lot. But there must be a random generator involved too? Because if I reboot x times, I only see the penguins 1 time and x-1 times I see the boring green stuff.

Yes there is a random generator. There is also a key you can press, not sure if it was Caps Lock or something to trigger it ;)

Ciao, Marcus

The things you learn here! I haven't rebooted this machine since I installed this edition of Linux, AFAIK, so I've never even seen this "Easter egg"! I think there's a way to tell how many days it's been up, but it has certainly been quite a while. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Doug McGarrett schreef:

The things you learn here! I haven't rebooted this machine since I installed this edition of Linux, AFAIK, so I've never even seen this "Easter egg"!

The Mrs told me to shut down the pc every night, and I do as I'm told. ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan schreef:

* Amedee Van Gasse [01-25-09 17:45]:

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Doug McGarrett schreef:

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The things you learn here! I haven't rebooted this machine since I installed this edition of Linux, AFAIK, so I've never even seen this "Easter egg"! The Mrs told me to shut down the pc every night, and I do as I'm told. ;-)

Ahhhh, newly wed :^)

7 years in february. Isn't there a movie about that? :) Anyway, as we all know: chix dig tux, so I'm gonna try to make the pinguins default for her computer. She'll love me. Even more! :-) Good night all, Amedee. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Amedee Van Gasse schreef:

Doug McGarrett schreef:

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The things you learn here! I haven't rebooted this machine since I installed this edition of Linux, AFAIK, so I've never even seen this "Easter egg"!

The Mrs told me to shut down the pc every night, and I do as I'm told. ;-)

If you put it to sleep instead of powering down it resumes the session after powering up, so in that way you have one long session of uptime, even if you shut down the PC each night. It also saves you time, since a resume costs less time than a fresh reboot. Reboot is necessary only after a kernel upgrade. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sunday 25 January 2009 22:07, Marcus Meissner wrote:

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:03:58PM +0100, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

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When I boot the pc, I have noticed that I don't always get the same background in Grub.

Most of the times it's a standard opensuse green background, a bit boring but with stylish gradients.

But sometimes I get cute little animated pinguins in an antarctic landscape. It looks like a level from pingus (you know, the lemmings clone).

After reading menu.lst, I think that gfxmenu is taking care of the background. I'm curious why it isn't always the same.

Because its not always Winter or Christmas ;) It is a date dependend easter egg.

Ciao, Marcus

Arent they cute? :) You can "cheat" grub to always display it. Its been on this list a few times. Make a search for it... -- /Rikard Johnels

Am Sonntag, 25. Januar 2009 13:10:59 schrieb Anders Johansson:

It's a little easter egg that's been around a while. IIRC, the probability that the christmas scene is displayed instead of the normal boot screen increases the closer you get to christmas

And it spikes (the probality, that is) at Dec, 6. Which is very, very much appreciated by my family. We don't live in Germany, and so we are pretty much out-of-the-loop for Nikolausi. Thanks a lot for the nice easter-christmas-egg! -- Gruß Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org