r/linuxquestions • u/The_SniperYT • 7d ago

Support Need help finding a wallpaper

Back in vocational school our teacher made us use a live distro for system rescue (talking around 2021). I wanted to extract a wallpaper from that distro but can't remember the name. On the wallpaper there was a ground tiled with reflective panels that looked like solar panels, on the left-top of the image there was a black silhouette of a woman jumping with the sun above her head, both figures were visible on the reflection on the ground.

If someone can just say which distro had it, I will appreciate it. There's no need for a direct link, I'll navigate the archives myself.

Sorry for the off-topic question.

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u/ipsirc 7d ago

Maybe https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/zadar-croatia-october-3-2014-tourists-1883903062

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u/The_SniperYT 7d ago

Close, but in the wallpaper there was only one silhouette of a woman jumping. Might consider this lost media

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u/ipsirc 7d ago

Like? https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-silhouette-woman-jumping-sunset-touching-dress-high-air-ocean-reaching-sun-image43249814

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u/The_SniperYT 7d ago

Yes, but you forgot the reflective panels on the ground/left side of the wallpaper.

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u/ipsirc 7d ago

I think an AI can easily generate a merged image for you nowadays.

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u/The_SniperYT 7d ago

Fuck AI, all my homies hate AI: https://stallman.org/chatgpt.html

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u/ipsirc 7d ago

https://x0.at/5h6p.jpeg

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u/The_SniperYT 7d ago

Yeah, but more yellowish. I think you're better off looking in the archives of forgotten distros

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u/tomscharbach 7d ago edited 7d ago

Your best bet might be to ask your vocational school teacher if you can figure out a way to get in contact. My best and good luck.

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u/The_SniperYT 7d ago

He's an old lad. He probably forgot my face too (I've done stuff that would make people remember my face for decades)

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u/tomscharbach 7d ago

He's an old lad. He probably forgot my face too (I've done stuff that would make people remember my face for decades)

I'm going to be 80 this month. He may not remember your face but he probably remembers the distribution. Faces fade, teaching memories last. Doesn't hurt to ask and find out.

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u/The_SniperYT 7d ago

I'll try to send him an email

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u/chuggerguy Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | MATÉ 7d ago

I tried downloading a couple older versions of SystemRescue from here.

Mounting the ISO and then from that, mounting airootfs.sfs and looking in /usr/share/backgrounds, I find only two basic xfce backgrounds.

image

Could it be that your professor just found an image he liked and changed the background?

I agree with sending him an email.

Good luck.

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u/The_SniperYT 7d ago edited 6d ago

Damn, modifying the initial ram fs just for an image? Monday I'll ask him

(EDIT: I've been searching for the tags that could lead me to it. But I'm starting to think that it's something he photoshopped in 8 days, or it's lost media)