I just found out about the free the fish easter egg available in Ubuntu:
Press Alt + F2
Enter this: free the fish
Are there any more easter eggs available in Ubuntu? What are they?
I just found out about the free the fish easter egg available in Ubuntu:
Press Alt + F2
Enter this: free the fish
Are there any more easter eggs available in Ubuntu? What are they?
Here is another package that is just a joke : sl, standing for Steam Locomotive.
Just download sl and then run sl
in a terminal.
It has been designed for people confusing ls
and sl
. See manual page for more exciting features!
LiSt
, and the keys are on opposite sides of the keyboard.
Oct 23, 2014 at 13:23
Watch Star Wars in terminal telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Not gonna spoil it for you with a screenshot, but in a terminal try: apt-get moo
And then, if you have aptitude
installed take a look at:
aptitude moo
aptitude -v moo
aptitude -vv moo
aptitude -vvv moo
(etc)
(Bonus: if you enjoy this then install cowsay
for hours of command-line entertainment!)
For 11.04 and earlier:
gegls from outer space
and hit enter.gegls from outer space
crashes something; the effect is the same as killing explorer.exe
in Windows. I had to do CTRL-ALT-DELETE to get out. :(
Nov 11, 2012 at 20:55
I just found a quite funny mix between "cowsay" and "fortune":
First, install both cowsay and fortune
sudo apt-get install cowsay fortune-mod
Now, pass fortune as the argument for cowsay:
fortune | cowsay
A cow will now tell you something clever about life ;) Have fun!
cowsay
is that there's multiple "cows" - you can try to enter for example cowsay -f tux "Hello, world"
. A full list of cows is available by running ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows
. You can also replace cowsay
with cowthink
if you want a thought-bubble instead of a speech-bubble :)
echo 'asdf' | cowsay | shuf
is great for masochists
Apr 28, 2015 at 9:07
Lord of The Rings Easter Egg
Open Terminal
type calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.lotr -A 365
and hit Enter
You can also try these
calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.pagan -A 365
calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music -A 365
calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.computer -A 365
calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history -A 365
You can get a list of all calendars available by:
ls /usr/share/calendar/
In Firefox, go to about:robots
OO.org (doesn't work in LO rc4 on MAverick): http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Easter_Eggs
Clicking on the fish with the mouse will make it go away, to get rid of it for good. you can type killall gnome-panel
into the terminal. Also, as an easter egg, it is an undocumented feature.
BONUS: Did you know that, the US Federal Government will not use any software that has undocumented features (aka Easter Eggs)?
You can see some ubuntu easter egss in the links below..
http://blog.fasttracksites.com/index.php?p=viewentry&id=5
Try to install emacs
and then press ESC+x (when you've started emacs) (M-x) and then write butterfly for some advanced butterfly magic ;)
I also found a couple too, check them out.
Tested and working in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
sudo apt-get install libaa-bin
aafire
sudo apt-get install oneko
oneko
xeyes
sudo apt-get install cmatrix
cmatrix
sudo apt-get install bb
bb
I really liked lolcat:
sudo apt-get install lolcat
echo {a..z}{a..z}{a..z} | lolcat
Hint: rainbows.
Back on the ASCII art vein there is toilet:
sudo apt-get install toilet
echo abcdef | toilet
man toilet
reveals a wealth of options.
Some of bsdgames could be classified as Easter eggs:
sudo apt-get install bsdgames
pom
number 123
primes 1 100
but the most part are just too awesome to be just Easter eggs.
sudo Default insults:
sudo visudo
Defaults insults
Now whenever you make a password mistake, sudo
makes witty remarks about your intelligence or typing skills.
Learnt from Network World. All others on their top 11 were already here :-)
lolcat
command really work? I'm only getting colored text with the command you posted.
Oct 28, 2014 at 13:36
cat
? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Unix%29 lolcat
's a parody.
Oct 28, 2014 at 13:54
cat
was, I just thought that there was more to it.
Oct 28, 2014 at 14:09
unity-control-center
if using Unity or gnome-control-center
if using GNOME)ddate
is short for Discordian calendar, which was the calendar of an old cult that worshipped the Greek god of chaos, Eris (thanks @tox123).
I noticed this when mistyping the date
. In a terminal, run
ddate
Today is Sweetmorn, the 13th day of Discord in the YOLD 3181
nmap has one too, to format output in s|<rIpt kIddi3
style:
$ nmap -oS - scanme.nmap.org
$taRt1ng Nmap 6.40 ( hTtp://nMap.org ) at 2015-03-27 19:22 C3T
NMap sCaN report F0r $cAnm3.nmap.Org (74.207.244.221)
H0$t !z up (0.17z laT3ncy).
N0T Shown: 995 f|ltEr3D p0Rt$
P0RT $TaTE s3RvIC3
80/tcP op3n htTp
443/Tcp cl0$ed HtTps
6667/tcp cl0$3d 1Rc
6969/tcp Cl0S3d acmS0da
8333/TCp cl0seD unknOwn
Nmap Done: 1 iP addreSz (1 ho$t Up) scannEd !n 10.14 S3cONdz
Unicode U+E0FF is displayed as the "Circle Of Friends" logo and U+F200 is "ubuntu" in the Ubuntu (typeface) on Ubuntu. Type: Ctrl-Shift-U, then F200 or E0FF in Gedit or Pluma. The characters are in the Unicode Private Use Area so they may display differently depending on which font you have selected. Here are both, they don't display on askubuntu.com, copy/paste to your regular text editor:
U+E0FF:
U+F200:
A screenshot: