Re:Doom as a tool for system administration (1999)
by squarefoot on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:38AM
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Bubblefishymon. Not a game, but it gives funny but very functional visual appearance to system/memory load, which helps a lot to get the system status. I think discovered it in the late 90s or early 2k as a couple Windowmaker dockapps which later merged into a single one which was also ported to Gkrellm, and still use it under Xfce.
http://pigeond.net/bfm/
Similar solutions were also mentioned in "Ready Player One".
I'd love to see more applications of this applied to the more tedious and boring aspects of system administration.