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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

THIS is what Fedora 10’s boot sequence will look like

Filed under: Linux — Tags: , , , — Jonathan Rothwell @ 00:17


I must admit, when I first saw this, I was floored. It is staggeringly beautiful.

It uses a new bootsplash system called Plymouth, which takes advantage of the modesetting abilities available in some kernels. Hopefully modesetting will make it into the next release of the mainline kernel so that Plymouth can be used more easily on other distributions: whilst it requires compilation into the initramfs, it looks gorgeous and will certainly increase the ‘wow’ factor for Fedora.



1 Comment »

  1. I wouldn’t have said it was overly good myself.

    Comment by Jugalug — Sunday, November 16, 2008 @ 21:07

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