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Linux Candy: Hollywood – fill your console with Hollywood melodrama technobabble

Hollywood is a 102 line script that occupies your console with tech geekery.

Evolvotron is an interactive “generative art” application to evolve images/textures/patterns/animations.

Buoh is a reader for online strips comics. It’s free and open source software.

Boxes is a text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text. It can spice up news posting, emails, documenting files, and much more.

Steam Locomotive is a fun command that’s designed to teach you one thing. Stop mistyping ls!

xcowsay is a tiny utility that displays a cow with a speech bubble containing some text. It’s free and open source goodness.

nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. It’s free and open source candy.

CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix”, and is based on the screensaver from the movie’s website.

lolcat applies rainbow colors to text output in the terminal. It works in a similar way to the venerable cat command but jazzes things up.

The nights are drawing in. You want to feel warm and toasty. And nothing beats a log fire. cacafire displays burning ASCII art flames.