Plymouth is a free application which provide bootsplash for

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, which handles user interaction during the boot process. Plymouth supports animations using

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(DRM) and the

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and is bundled into initrd which enables it to be launched before the

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is mounted. The program is named after

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, a name which symbolizes the program's role as a first point of entry for users to interact with a computer system. ''Plymouth'' was first included in

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10 "Cambridge" shipped on November 25, 2008 where it replaced Red Hat Graphical Boot (RHGB).

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includes it in the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" release shipped on April 29, 2010.

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switched from Splashy to Plymouth with versio
Adélie (2010.0)

History

The development of Plymouth began in May 2007 and began under the leadership of Ray Strode. However, there was little support for this project until early 2008, when the decision to introduce Plymouth into

10 gave a boost to the development of the project. Since then, Plymouth has been introduced in

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2010.0 and is also introduced in

10.04, as well as in KDE neon. It is now included in

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, MX Linux, Manjaro Linux, and various other Desktop Linux distributions.

References

External links

* https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth/ * https://launchpad.net/plymouth Booting Fedora Project Free system software Freedesktop.org {{linux-stub

History

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