FIGlet (comes from
Frank Sheeran,
Ian Chai and
Glenn Chappell, people responsible for the first incarnation) is a program that generates more or less
cool text
banners, like this:
(This says "kuel, huh?")
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Home page:
http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/~chai/figlet.html
One web interface to figlet:
http://saigon.mit.edu/dinhyen/figlet/figlet.html
Also available as Debian package and RPM if you prefer!