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Xsnow
Original author(s)	Rick Jansen
Developer(s)	Willem Vermin
Stable release	3.7.9 / March 28, 2024; 7 months ago
Repository	sf.net/p/xsnow/code/
Written in	C
Operating system	Unix-like
License	GPL v3
Website	ratrabbit.nl/ratrabbit/xsnow/

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Sample output of Xsnow 1.42 on a KDE/Linux system

Xsnow is a software application that creates the appearance of snow falling on the elements of the graphical user interface of a computer system. Xsnow was originally created as a virtual greeting card for Macintosh systems in 1984. In 1993, the concept was ported to the X Window System as Xsnow, and was included on a number of Linux distributions in the late 1990s.

Licensing

Even though Xsnow was distributed with earlier versions of Linux, its most recent versions are shareware Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X ports with added features. The Unix-based ports for versions <= 1.42 include the source code in order to allow compiling to other platforms, but the software is not considered free software in the strictest sense.

Version 2.0.1 and higher are free software.

License

Xsnow version <= 1.42: Xsnow is available freely and you may give it to other people as is, but I retain all rights. Therefore it does not classify as 'Public Domain' software. It *is* allowed to package Xsnow for Unix/Linux distributions, CD-Roms etc, and to make the necessary changes to makefiles etc. to facilitate this.

Versions 2.0.1 and higher use the GNU General Public Licence version 3.

Variants

At least one free variant with source code has been published for Windows by Revenger, Inc. This version is snow-only and does not use code from the Xsnow codebase.
MacPorts has a source code build for Mac OS X that's not the shareware version.
BSnow,^[1] a snow only replicant for BeOS is bundled with Haiku.
Let It Snow!^[2] a snow-only variant for Android. This version does not use code from the Xsnow codebase.

References

^ BSnow
^ Let It Snow! for Android^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

This graphics software–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] BSnow

[2] Let It Snow! for Android^{[permanent dead link]}

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+[[File:Xsnow.png|thumb|Sample output of Xsnow 1.42 on a KDE/Linux system]]
+'''Xsnow''' is a [[software application]] that creates the appearance of [[snow]] falling on the elements of the [[graphical user interface]] of a computer system. Xsnow was originally created as a virtual [[greeting card]] for [[Macintosh]] systems in 1984. In 1993, the concept was ported to the [[X Window System]] as Xsnow, and was included on a number of [[Linux]] distributions in the late 1990s.
-[[Image:Xsnow.png|right|300px|thumb|Sample output of Xsnow 1.42 on a KDE/Linux system]]
-'''Xsnow''' is a [[software application]] that was originally created as a virtual [[greeting card]] for [[Macintosh]] systems in 1984. In 1993, the concept was ported to the [[X Window System]] as Xsnow, and was included on a number of [[Linux]] distributions in the late 1990s.
 == Licensing ==
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 Xsnow version <= 1.42: ''Xsnow is available freely and you may give it to other people as is, but I retain all rights. Therefore it does not classify as 'Public Domain' software. It *is* allowed to package Xsnow for Unix/Linux distributions, CD-Roms etc, and to make the necessary changes to makefiles etc. to facilitate this.''
-Versions 2.0.1 and higher use the [[GNU General Public Licence]].
+Versions 2.0.1 and higher use the [[GNU General Public Licence|GNU General Public Licence version 3]].
 == Variants ==
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 == External links ==
+* {{sourceforge|xsnow}}
 * [https://janswaal.home.xs4all.nl/Xsnow/ Original Xsnow homepage]
+* [https://janswaal.home.xs4all.nl/WinSnow/ Snow for Windows]
-* {{sourceforge|xsnow}}
+* [https://janswaal.home.xs4all.nl/iSnow/ iSnow for macOS / OS X]
 * [https://janswaal.home.xs4all.nl/MacSnow/ Snow for Macintosh]
-* [https://janswaal.home.xs4all.nl/MacOSXSnow/ iSnow for macOS / OS X]
+* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsnow/ wsnow for browsers]
-* [https://janswaal.home.xs4all.nl/WinSnow/ Snow for Windows]
-* [https://www.ratrabbit.nl/ratrabbit/content/sw/wsnow/introduction wsnow for browser]
 * [https://klepp.biz/Software/jsSnow_en.html jsSnow for webpages]