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A Closer Look At Red Hat's Plymouth

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Back in July we shared Red Hat's intentions to replace RHGB with Plymouth, a new graphical boot process that is able to benefit from the latest Linux graphics capabilities. Red Hat engineers had primarily designed Plymouth around a forthcoming feature we've talked about quite a bit known as kernel mode-setting, which provides end-users with a cleaner and flicker-free boot experience. In September in The State of Kernel Mode-Setting we then shared more information on Plymouth along with a brief video. Most recently we published another video of Plymouth that shows the tighter integration between the boot process and starting the GNOME Display Manager. Today though we are looking at Plymouth and its different plug-ins along with providing a few more videos.

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Comments (3)

Sander_Marechal ·
Plymouth really impresses me. Not the plugins per-se, but the way that the boot is flicker free. And especially how the boot splash simply fades into the login screen. Impressive!
tuxchick ·
I must give it a test-drive. Red Hat's bootup used to drive me crazy. Back when it was still Red Hat Linux (8 or 9, I think) it didn't just flicker, it turned my monitor on and off a half-dozen times before it got to the GDM login, CLICK CLICK CLICK and I thought it was going to damage my monitor. So I blew it away, installed Mandrake, and wasted my life playing Tux Racer.
gus3 ·
Or, just remove the "rhgb" boot parameter, and then it won't switch to graphics mode until the display manager starts.

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