Beauty and the Beast - any beast IN (Dockstar, GoGlex Net/Home, Pogo E02, ...) is ok (6 replies)

Hi everyone,

while trying to fool around with the LEDs on my POGO E02, I stumbled upon a blog post by Obihörnchen and had a look at paragraph 13: "Enable color in Bash prompt". ---> WOW, I thought, this really does look nice. But why should the Archlinux guys have all the fun?

So the next thing I did was google for debian ASCII art in order to replace the (amazing) ALARM logo, only to find out that there is indeed something even better for debian: a package called linuxlogo!

First action, therefore, is:

apt-get install linuxlogo
# try it
linuxlogo

So far, so good.

Then, I modified the bash.bashrc from Obihörnchen and copied his DIR_COLORS and put both of them in /etc.

This then looks much better already. However, I still get all the boring stuff like the copyright message from motd. But, for this Thomas Hunter provided a christmas present. So, I emptied out the file /etc/motd (which physically is /var/run/motd) and that was another step forward. Then another little modification of bash.bashrc as suggested in the above mentioned post. This gives the final result: BEAUTIFUL (in my eyes).

I've provided the two files I use for the colors and the bash resources along with a screenshot, so you can check whether this is for you.

Enjoy!