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Cool screen savers

archive.org IBM Screen Saver : IBM : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Classic Eye Bee M screensaver. Not sure the exact date but if I had to guess it came with a Black IBM Pentium 233mmx in 1997 (The one with the external media...

I came across this old IBM screen saver on a old machine and thought it was pretty cool. I set it up on my work laptop, but not Im curious if there are any cool linux or other screen savers you guys know?

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Anyone remember the castaway? The adventures of a guy on a one-tree desert island.

I don't think I've used a screen saver in over a decade
- It's better to just put the display to sleep when it's not in use anyways. We only used screensavers because CRT monitors took so long to fully warm up.

i forgot which desktop-environment/window-manager it was (icewm?) but it had a nice collection of old screensavers like the pipe maze and the bouncing marque and starfied warp and flying toasters, etc.
it was almost 20 years ago so i assume that ms or apple would have come suing by now
- Pretty sure you're describing XScreenSaver! Still alive and well :)
  
  I would bet your right. One of the best collections of screensavers out there. I know they work on X but I haven't yet tried on Wayland. Guess when I get home I'll give it a try.
  
  yes, there was an additional package you could install that came from the project that worked with xscreensaver

Honestly, play around with Xscreensaver - that's a fun collection. I've currently settled on the Apple II screensaver and have a custom Python script pip Star Trek scripts to it.
The Nakagin capsule tower one is awesome, too.

Looks cool tbh

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