Plymouth Graphical Boot System Sees Rare Update

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Plymouth Graphical Boot System Sees Rare Update

Most Linux distributions now use Plymouth as their graphical boot system / splash screen that leverages DRM/KMS kernel support. While many Linux distributions rely on Plymouth, there hasn't been a formal release in the better part of a year -- until yesterday...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Plymouth-0.9.2script s-Released

[gens]

i yearn for the day when binary drivers are no longer needed so that splash screens can just be done on the framebuffer as they should be

[Awesomeness]

the X11 code has been ported over fully to GTK3

Funny. When KDE proposed Qt-only (i.e. not depending on kdelibs) software to FDO, they told KDE that FDO software can't use a single toolkit. Now that. Double standards?

Why does a fucking splash screen use GTK anyway?

[uid313]

Never worked for me

I used Plymouth on Ubuntu, multiple versions.
On Intel, AMD and Nvidia graphics. With closed and open source drivers.
It never really worked any good.