Linux Demos?

Sits asks: "Every year my univerisity's computer society hopes to entice new students to join by running a computer display. Last year we ran Q3 test on a Win98 system, but this year we would like to demo something running on Linux. Does anyone know of a flashy way to demonstrate Linux to regular people? Does Linux have an active demo scene and if so would a display of those be appealing to non-technical users?"

Comments

All of the above.

[bluGill]

No new demos to add, but some ideas if you have time (and $$$) to make it work.

Get a graphics card with multipul monitor support (or several cards). On one have a full screen linux demo running. On anouther have Wine (see someone else's post) running something, with some obvious unix things on screen. Maybe visit and get a mac program running too (There is an open source version, but i've never played with it). Mame is anouther neat thing to run (have some game with a good looping demo). The gameboy (vgb), nintendo (ines, snes9x), sega (mastergear), 2600 (stella), atari-800, apple// (prodosemu?), and so on.

In other words by not limited yourself to linux you open up a large scene. Just make sure some linux native stuff is running, and you have enough CPU power to do everything.