Propaganda

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This website is an archive. It ran from 2006-2010. Virtually everything on here is outdated or inaccurate.

Propaganda was a website which offered free tiled desktop wallpaper under the GNU GPL. Although it doesn't seem to make quite as much sense now as it did then, you were supposed to use these wallpapers in Linux and thus somehow fight Windows. It was run by a net.kook named Bowie Poag.

In any case the wallpapers were rather good. They give your desktop a soothing feel and you can download a bunch and rotate them randomly without disturbing the visual impression of the desktop. You can download them here:

http://ira.abramov.org/Propaganda/ (browse by title)

http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/propaganda.html (download whole gzips)

Some of the older locations, where you can view the weird stuff Poag tended to put on his site next to the wallpaper:

I once read a long rant explaining why he had shut down an earlier location on one of these but none of it made any sense to me.

Bowie Poag is also notable for coming up with the idea for Mac OS X's Time Machine.

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