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Category: Best Unix Eyecandy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we're-having-more-fun-now dept.

What is on your desktop that soothes your tired eyes? A background image? A really pretty skinned application? A webcam of some girl that you obsessively reload every 60 seconds from the moment you sit at your desk until the moment you pass out? (If it's the last one, you might consider taking some sort of medication before she gets a restraining order against you.) If it's something else, why not try nominating them for their own Beanie Award?

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  1. Enlightenment by volsung · · Score: 2

    Sure, we've all heard about it and heard people drool about it, but it still takes the cake for best eye candy. Of course, that's why people with 32 meg of RAM and a P-100 hate it, but the award isn't for speed. :)

  2. xteddy 2.0 by Hanno · · Score: 2

    Allow me to nominate xteddy, the only desktop application you'll really need:

    http://www.physik.uni-hall e.de/~e2od5/debian/xteddy.html

    This version of xteddy allows you to use different teddy images, among them a rubber duck, a stuffed penguin, various other stuffed animals.

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  3. Two nominees! by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 2

    Nominee #1 : Xscreensaver. (obvious)
    Nominee #1a: Sproingies screensaver. YUMMY!

  4. Xscreensaver by jfunk · · Score: 2

    Using the -root option.

    Wow, there's dolphins swimming behind my icons. Can't get much cooler than that.

  5. Quake 3 by FauxPasIII · · Score: 2

    Lay a Voodoo 3 chip on this game, and it's a sight so beautiful as to bring a tear to the eye.

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