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Re: Have Linux boot with eye-candy



On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 03:24:49PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote:
> Most distros these days don't show the boot messages scroll by in text
> mode but have a frame buffer with some nice logos and graphics.  Below
> is some information from our kernel maintainer on this.  I'm looking
> for a volunteer who'd check how SuSE/Red Hat et al. do it and comes up
> with something for Debian.  For more information, see below.
> 
> 

 [ deleted the 'more information' provided by Martin Michlmayr ]


There is a project called "bootsplash.org"

Their feature list:

* Nice graphics (JPEG)
* Antialiased text rendering (TrueType)
* Animations (MNG)
* Progress Bar
* Display of boot messages above or below a graphic.
   ("verbose" and "silent" modes)
* Fully themeable


Visit http://www.bootsplash.org if you have more interest
in that part of debian-installer then I have.


Geert Stappers



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