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by BobMcBob 91 days ago
I know this isnt related to the post, but does anyone remember the artist or website that had a bunch of cool textures and colorful tiled wallpaper for the early days of linux? think mid-90s.

I've been scratching my head for years and my searches have never found it, but there has to be some white beards here that can recall it.

I remember there were some really cool options available, I believe in a square format for better tiling. If anyone can remember and post a link or archive I would very much appreciate it.

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If it's what I'm thinking of, it was the "Propaganda" wallpapers. I remember using them in Red Hat 6 in the late 90s!

https://github.com/BenjaminHCCarr/PropagandaTiles

Seems to match what's in the desktop-backgrounds RPM on this ISO (CD 1)

https://archive.org/details/red-hat-linux-6.1

Yes! This is it, thank you! I've been trying to find these for a long while. I even remember co-opting some for a Geocities page back in the day when those were kinda cool lol!
Was it tigert? Or maybe Garrett LeSage?
k10k.com maybe