- XBill
The classic
Open Source computer game "XBill" is an arcade style game for theX Window System . It was very popular at the end of the '90s [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3731] , featuring a bespectacled character known as "Bill". Your goal is to prevent Bill's legions of clones from installing "Wingdows", a virus "cleverly designed to resemble a popularoperating system ", on a variety of computers running other operating systems.The operating systems are represented by logos shown on the computer screens. The computers you have to defend include PCs running
Linux andBSD ,SPARCstation s with Solaris, SGIIRIX workstations, Apple Macs,Palm pilot s, andNeXTcube s. When Bill installs Wingdows onto a computer, its current operating system is placed beside it.Using your mouse, you can slap Bill and drag discarded operating systems back to their computers. At the end of the level, you get points for every computer that is still running its original operating system.
On later levels, computers are connected to each other with LAN cables, causing Wingdows to spread faster. Some computers may also catch fire. This can be cured by dragging buckets of
water onto them.References
* [http://www.xbill.org/ XBill.org]
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