Information Of Batteries: Hidden surprises in software for Linux

Hidden surprises in software for Linux

Who said Linux was boring? While some find it hard to believe, responsible for applications for Linux have a sense of humor, and it shows in the hidden options of their programs called Easter eggs.

An easter egg in English Easter Eggis a hidden feature found only with a specific command or by typing the right combination. Only serves to pass the time, but some are very clever.

Here we show some examples of Easter eggs.

The fish

From Gnome, and pressing Alt and F2 keys opened a window to execute commands and applications. If you type free the fish we see this funny fish, which move across the screen and turn away if you click the mouse over.

Where’s my easter egg?

To the surprise we have to be very insistent. From Terminal, taking aptitude installed, you type aptitude moo. Aptitude will tell us: There are no Easter Eggs in this program.

If we write aptitude-v moo us back to say that there is no Easter egg. But if we write aptitude-v-v moo aptitude-v-v-v moo aptitude-v-v-v-v moo and aptitude-v-v-v-v-v moor we will finally convince the program and read Like the original sentences.

And with aptitude-v-v-v-v-v-v moo, the program will display an ASCII drawing. Does it sound?

Home shooter

Again from Gnome, we press ALT and F2 keys and type gegls from outer space. We will open a window where we can play a Space Invaders with the fish before a sympathetic protagonist and cows. Will you get them all?

If you prefer to play the classic shooter, try to OpenOffice Calc In cell A1 enter = Game (“StarWars”).

WMD

Gparted responsible for a partition manager, also have a sense of humor. If you started off using gparted from terminal without administrator privileges, gparted will warn us that we must be careful, because it is a weapon of mass destruction (data, that is).

Hidden pictures

OpenOffice teams have added pictures of him hiding in the office suite different applications. In particular, we see the writing team of OpenOffice Writer StarWriterTeam and pressing F3.

The same applies to OpenOffice Calc team STARCALCTEAM typing = (), in cell A1: see the picture that heads this article.

Obsessed with cows

In the Terminal application apt-get moo command works well. Show us wondering if we have a cow mooing today.

Returning to Aptitude, we found an easter egg in support of the program. If we write aptitude help, we will see a list of available options, and as a culmination, this sentence: This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers.

Another curious situation is what gives us cowsay command followed by a word or phrase. We see something like what we see in the image.

These are just some of the Easter eggs you get at some programs for Linux. Do you know any more?

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