I stumbled on a beautiful screen saver for my Ubuntu box today called Eternity which features several flavors of Ubuntu plus a default animation as well. The screen saver is called Eternity and the flavors are plain old vanilla Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio and oddly enough, the Ubuntu Satanic release.

The long and short of it is, it looks really nice. Here’s how you can install it.

You’ll need to pop open a command line (Applications-> Accessories-> Terminal Session)

Lets pop in there and edit our sources.list file to include Eternity’s repositories.

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Now you’ve got a graphical text editor up and running. Go to the bottom and paste this in, then save it.

# Eternity Screensaver
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/eternity/ubuntu feisty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/eternity/ubuntu feisty main

You can change feisty in the above line to gutsy or hardy as well.

Now to install it type:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install eternal-ubuntu eternal-studio eternal-damnation

Now you can go to System-> Screensaver and select the Eternity screen saver you want.