Theme: LISP Machine

This theme is based on the CADR LISP Machine of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The machine played a role in the history of free software. Its commercialization in the year 1979 split the MIT hacker community and was one of the reasons AI lab programmer Richard M. Stallman started the GNU project. The complex wiring of the machine (the first machines were hand-assembled by Prof. Richard Greenblatt in the mid-1970s) may also symbolize the art of hacking that is valued by the Debian community. I photographed the machine during a visit in Boston on October 9th, 2010.

I wrote a presentation of the idea to the Debian Desktop list. http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2010/11/msg00039.html

Author: Ulrich Hansen (uhansen@mainz-online.de)

Copyright: Ulrich Hansen, Mainz, Germany 2010. Published under the terms of the of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

See also my artwork for Debian CDs at: http://www.ulrich-hansen.de/debian


First version

Wallpaper 1400x1050

Wallpaper 1400x1050

Wallpaper 1920x1200


Second Version "Nucleus"

I developed this second version while working on the CD label. Basically it is the same picture as the first version that I took and transformed to a circle.

Wallpaper 2048x1536

Wallpaper 2048x1536 (4:3)

Wallpaper 2560x2048 (5:4)

Wallpaper 2560x1600 (16:9)


Blue Version

Wallpaper

Blue Wallpaper 2048x1536

Blue Wallpaper 2048x1536 (4:3)

Blue Wallpaper 2560x2048 (5:4)

Blue Wallpaper 2560x1600 (16:9)

Grub 2

Blue Grub2 Background Image

Blue Grub2 Background Image

GDM 3

To make the blue theme consistent with the dark/golden colors of the CD label and cover I created the following version of the GDM3 Wallpaper. A pure blue version can also be downloaded.

GDM3 Login Background Image

GDM3 Login Background 1140x 1152 (5:3) GDM3 Login Background 2560x1600 (16:9)

GDM3 Login Background Image blue version 1140x 1152 (5:3)


Desktop splash screen 420x293 px

lisp-machine-blue-desktop-splash-420x293.png

Desktop splash screen


CD label

CDlabel

CDlabel (high res.)


CD cover

CDcover

CDcover full res. (PDF, 58 MB)

Of course some of the elements (screenshots, quotes, release notes) have to be changed with the release of Debian 6.


Alternatives

Some colorful wallpapers I experimented with when I created the first version.

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