Animated GIF in Linux
I'm breaking all kids of new ground these days. I used the following programs.
* GIMP to convert from png to gif

* Comes on the system for Ubuntu
* sudo apt-get install gimp

* GIFSICLE to resize and animate the collection of image

*There is no automatic install for gifsicle under Ubuntu. I tried to download the Debian DEB file, but no dice. The site was busy. So, I used ALIEN again to install the RPM.
* Command Line used:
gifsicle --optimize --colors 64 --delay 20 --resize 100x --loopcount *.gif > out.gif