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phoronix
03-18-2009, 02:00 PM
Phoronix: One Last Hurrah For USplash: A New Theme

Pushed into the Jaunty repository this morning for Ubuntu 9.04 was a new theme for USplash. This Canonical project for providing a splash screen at boot-up on Ubuntu is being replaced by Plymouth with Ubuntu 9.10 (the Karmic Koala release), but there is a new Ubuntu theme as one last hurrah...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzE1MQ
NSLW
03-18-2009, 02:08 PM
Not very impressive.
curaga
03-18-2009, 02:12 PM
A screenshot would be appreciated :)
aaaantoine
03-18-2009, 02:54 PM
Why is it that whenever X starts up there's always some garbled mess on the screen before the mouse cursor shows up?
remm
03-18-2009, 03:00 PM
With F11, I get 0 mess today :)
madman2k
03-18-2009, 03:05 PM
dont you trust in ext4, or why else do you still use ext3?
Ant P.
03-18-2009, 03:23 PM
Why is it that whenever X starts up there's always some garbled mess on the screen before the mouse cursor shows up?

Depends on the driver, I guess. I've never seen it happen on any of mine... (well, except when opengl stuff crashes)
monraaf
03-18-2009, 03:41 PM
I don't get it, what's so exciting about a boot splash screen? Better try to improve boot times, suspend/resume support and power management so there's no need to watch a useless splash screen, really.
SolidSteel144
03-18-2009, 09:22 PM
I don't get it, what's so exciting about a boot splash screen? Better try to improve boot times, suspend/resume support and power management so there's no need to watch a useless splash screen, really.

It just shows that they are finally working on the looks.
yoshi314
03-19-2009, 02:52 PM
Why is it that whenever X starts up there's always some garbled mess on the screen before the mouse cursor shows up? it happens in xf86-video-ati driver.

i guess memory is not cleared before display is initialized. i can see checkerboard of my previous desktop session even after hot reboot of the entire system (ctrl+alt+del one).
crispy
03-19-2009, 06:43 PM
Tbh, someone should code in a little silly game to play while the system is loading. Pong would be excellent.

Splash screen with a game >>>>>>> all graphic effects.. You would probably even see people rebooting just to finish stage 1 :|

Maybe forcing the system back in the load process for every ball you dont catch? And give you bonus load time by not loading all the system components - might be an advantage for vista :D
curaga
03-20-2009, 01:32 PM
Lilo has some games that can be used while you ponder which OS choice to boot :)
Kano
03-20-2009, 02:12 PM
The theme is so wonderful. Nobody can live without it...