Custom openSUSE countdown graphics
Update: Counter updated to the 11.3 release, new links here:
http://www.solidonline.dk/11.3.php?red=127&green=0&blue=127&alpha=30&gamma=0.6&lang=jp
http://www.solidonline.dk/11.3.phps
http://en.opensuse.org/Countdown#Advanced_version_by_Sylvester_Lykkehus
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I meant to write this post a long time ago, when the countdown for openSUSE 11.1 was still active.
In this thread on the openSUSE mailing list, David C. Rankin came up with a blue version of the original 11.1 countdown graphics.
That inspired me, because the official green version did not match the colorshceme of my website. Also, the 3 sizes to choose from (small, original, large) did not fit my needs.
So, I wrote a small PHP script, which can dynamicly change the looks (color, gamma, alpha, language), and size of the countdown logo, using the official logo as a base image.
OpenSUSE 11.1 was released quite some time ago, and the counter has been updated to 11.2.
You can see examples of the two versions of the counter here:
http://www.solidonline.dk/11.1.php?red=127&gamma=0.3&size=150x150
http://www.solidonline.dk/11.2.php?red=127&green=0&blue=127&alpha=30&gamma=0.6&lang=jp
You can read about how to use the custom countdown version on the openSUSE wiki:
http://en.opensuse.org/Countdown#Advanced_version_by_Sylvester_Lykkehus
You can link directly to the countdown graphics, or if your webhost has PHP support, you can get the source code here, and host it yourself:
http://www.solidonline.dk/11.2.phps
For those who would like to have this counter on there iGoogle page. There is gadget now, that is based on this project.
See:
http://www.google.nl/ig/directory?type=gadgets&url=hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/102806097890617524736/opensuse-countdown.xml