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    Kernel Screensaver?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by inspirations365, Jun 29, 2011.

  1. inspirations365

    inspirations365 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys!

    A couple of years ago I was messing around with Ubuntu and came across a neat way to display kernel bits as a screensaver, like here. Having a spot of trouble with it, I created this thread here which resolved my issues and got me up and running.

    I'm wondering if there's a way I can do the same thing in Snow Leopard using xscreensaver and Phosphor. Does anyone know?


    EDIT***

    I know things should largely be the same as they were here, but there are some significant things I must me missing since I cannot get jas's fantastic guide (along with these minor corrections to it) to work on my computer.

    This time, I do have both Phosphor and the kernel ready, I just need to know how to make the script (or any other script for that matter, if anyone knows one) run properly. I keep getting the error when I run the perl script

    "syntax error at /usr/local/bin/phosphor-kernel-src.pl line 3, near "while ;"
    Execution of /usr/local/bin/phosphor-kernel-src.pl aborted due to compilation errors."

    And yes, I did make sure I have the DATA correction after the while above.
     
  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Unfortunately, I doubt such a screensaver concept would work on a closed-source OS. Linux is OSS that you can view and edit at your leisure, but MS Windows and Apple's Mac OS X are proprietary.