In 2012, Ubuntu, a very popular Linux desktop distribution, decided to strike the beautiful Electric Sheep screen saver program from it’s repositories (think app store), apparently because of some licensing issue or other. This decision also followed a philosophy of “fat trimming”, striking screen savers and other unnecessary bloat from the default set of installed programs, as users no longer needed…
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Ubuntu Dreams of Electric Sheep…
There is an updated version of this post here In 2012, Ubuntu, a very popular Linux desktop distribution, decided to strike the beautiful Electric Sheep screen saver program from it’s repositories (think app store), apparently because of some licensing issue or other. This decision followed a philosophy of “fat trimming”, striking screen savers and other unnecessary bloat from the default set of…