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Phreaker
November 2nd, 2008, 05:16 PM
Jaunty needs to have splashy (http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/doku.php?id=start), too
The plain grub stinks
smartboyathome
November 2nd, 2008, 05:40 PM
No, Jaunty should have Plymouth. I like splashy, but Plymouth takes advantage of the new modesetting patches coming in kernels 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.
MadsRH
November 2nd, 2008, 05:58 PM
No, Jaunty should have Plymouth. I like splashy, but Plymouth takes advantage of the new modesetting patches coming in kernels 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.

I agree!
Read/see for yourself: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13029


//MadsRH
Phreaker
November 2nd, 2008, 06:00 PM
Is this the same thing that Mandriva 2009 has ?
smartboyathome
November 2nd, 2008, 06:09 PM
Is this the same thing that Mandriva 2009 has ?

No, its what Fedora 10 has. It will start being used more once the rest of the patches for modesetting make it into the 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 kernels.
Phreaker
November 2nd, 2008, 06:16 PM
Looks really nice(I saw a video on youtube).
Slug71
November 2nd, 2008, 08:04 PM
Will Plymouth work with Grub2? Or Grub2 ready i should say?
smartboyathome
November 2nd, 2008, 08:24 PM
It should, it has nothing to do with grub2, as its a boot splash.
gnomeuser
November 2nd, 2008, 08:33 PM
Jaunty needs to have splashy (http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/doku.php?id=start), too
The plain grub stinks

Splashy is a bootsplash, grub is a bootloader.

Your basic misunderstanding of these two concepts would indicate a potential for learning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_loader
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_splash

You may also want to want to search forums, we already have a long splashy v. usplash thread (which incidently seems to have turned into a pro-plymouth thread). It is very informative as to why splashy is not viable as a usplash replacement and why plymouth presents us with an interesting forward/backwards compatible solution for the future.
klange
November 2nd, 2008, 08:52 PM
(We have a dedicated topic for Plymouth (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=965338))
Slug71
November 2nd, 2008, 10:00 PM
+1 for Plymouth then.

Have added it to my JJ Alpha 1 wish list on Brainstorm.
Neon Lights
November 2nd, 2008, 10:41 PM
Eheheh. I feel special, I was one of the first people to suggest Plymouth on the forums. ^.^ lol

(so obviously, I'm for Plymouth)
kernelhaxor
November 2nd, 2008, 11:13 PM
Which is the one that openSuse uses? is Plymouth better than that one?
autocrosser
November 3rd, 2008, 12:49 AM
You are thinking of GFXboot---it's a mod of GRUB1 & yes, Plymouth is much better....
smartboyathome
November 3rd, 2008, 02:27 AM
You are thinking of GFXboot---it's a mod of GRUB1 & yes, Plymouth is much better....

No, OpenSUSE uses Splashy along with GFXBoot.