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Slick, intelligent Plymouth Boot Splash

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Boot screens: generally the land of the bland.

But not so anymore.

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Intelligent boot splash greeter

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Elephants and readers with a good memory may remember an ‘ambient boot splash’ proposal we featured at the end of October.

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Mock-up: intelligent, ambient Boot Splash

Reader Cullum Saunders pinged us with an interesting concept for an intelligent, friendly ambient boot screen, which he demoes in the video below.

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10 New Features/Changes Coming In Karmic You May Not Know About…

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Below is a list of 10 features and changes in Ubuntu 9.10 that you may not already know about… Or even be expecting! Ekiga Ekiga – the VoIP application that nobody uses – will finally be removed from the default installation. Not only did no-one use it (or anyone know of anyone else who used [...]

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Karmic’s Proposed Boot Screen Tweaked Again…

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Ubuntu 9.10’s proposed splash and log-in screens have, once again, undergone minor revisions. This time they’ve swapped out the warm tones of version 2 for a steely ‘purple’ colour – reminiscent of the first iteration. Splash Screen V.3                               [V.1 and V.2]   GDM Screen V.3                              [V1 and V2] Login Dialog V.3 GDM [...]

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Karmic’s New Boot & Login Screen

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The boot screen design proposal has undergone a minor revision since this post was written. Check out the revised boot screen/GDM screen by clicking your way over to this post.    The Ubuntu design team have published mock-ups of the proposed Ubuntu 9.10 Boot and GDM screens. In a post on the Ubuntu-art mailing list, [...]

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