I inherited, cleaned up, and packaged display-dhammapada for Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora.
This program displays a verses from the English or Polish translations of the
Dhammapada, a "versified Buddhist scripture traditionally ascribed to the Buddha himself".
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhammapada).
As this program works similarly to fortune, one may use it in shell profiles or
signature generators, among others.
Previous graphical display:
New options using notify-send , zenity, or kdialog:
Links: