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‘Super Boot Manager’ eases BURG, GRUB, Plymouth tweaking pains

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The newly launched ‘Super Boot Manager’ application, created by the developers behind graphical boot menu BURG, aims to streamline and simplify the process of tweaking the GRUB, BURG and Plymouth boot screens.

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GRUB customizer app makes tweaking your bootloader a breeze

‘Grub Customizer’ aims to make it a bit easier, providing a graphicl interface for allows for changing/setting various grub2/burg settings.

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Beautiful BURG boot-loader gets Ubuntu 11.04 PPA

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Installed Ubuntu 11.04 but miss your sexy BURG bootloader?

Fear not, a forward thinking chap, Nate Muench, has knocked up a PPA that publishes BURG for use in Ubuntu 11.04.

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GRUB2 gfxmenu theming guide

BURG. That fancy themeable bootloader we chant about at least once a month, ever growing in popularity and continuing to rack up new themes by the week, but not everyone is happy.

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Burg manager app updated with new themes, new features

Easy graphical BURG boot-loader tool ‘BURG Manager’ has been updated to version 1.0. Alongside bug fixes and translations several new features make this release notable: – make an appearance, including: – Ability to restore burg into MBR after a kernel upgrade Easily remove remove old kernel and related menu entries New themes included Live updating [...]

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‘Lightness’ BURG theme

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A new theme for graphical GRUB replacement BURG by ~SWOriginal (increasingly one of our favourite designers) has been released.

Called ‘Lightness’ the theme was designed to feel ‘calm, clean & modern’ according to its designer, and certainly gives a beautifully minimalistic introduction to your boot time.

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BURG fan? Put your talents to work and help create this theme

Bored? Nothing better to do? Why not help out Manu Järvinen who mailed us a plea for help on turning his rather swish BURG theme idea into a boot loading beauty. “I am a designer who does not like to code. But what I do like is to design. So I designed some graphics for [...]

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Fortune BURG theme adds Faenza style to boot time (Updated)

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Fans of the great looking graphical GRUB boot loader replacement ‘BURG‘ will no doubt be pleased to see yet another sterling theme is now available to use, install and gush over at every single boot. Called ‘Fortune‘, the theme is striking in design with its woody textured background and use of the superb Faenza icon set. Not [...]

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BURG Boot loader installation, themeing & more gets even easier with BURG Manager app

The process of installing BURG – the easy way to get a graphical, good-looking bootloader - has been made easier thanks to a new ‘BURG Manager’ application which provides users with a graphical front-end for configuring and managing various aspects of their bootloader. Features include: Install Burg, Burg-themes and a Burg emulator Set timeout Change theme Set the screen [...]

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OMG! 5! – Five keys to press during burg boot

Everyone loves button pushing and beautiful boot loader BURG gives you a copious selection to choose from. Better yet they’re useful! Here’s our dandy high-5 list of five buttons to press during your BURG boot. Press R for Resolution options BURG looking all stretched and garbled? Press the R key to select a better resolution. [...]

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Dark Shine BURG Theme adds transpicuous vibrancy to your boot screen

Add some ambiance (no, not that one) to your BURG boot-loader with SWOrginal’s Dark Shine Burg theme - a vibrant hyaline-like theme reminiscent of speeding city lights at night. Download file and easy-install script in the link below. It should go without saying that you do need to have BURG installed for this theme to work For [...]

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Get Animated, Themed, Icon Only GRUB Menu Using BURG – now simple to use!

We all know that the GRUB loading menu that greets many of upon boot isn’t the most stylish or modern looking interface – even adding a poorly pixelated picture background can’t save it from looking lame.

Getting a gorgeous, animated and informative boot-loader is no longer a dream thanks to ‘Brand New Universal Bootloader’ (more commonly referred to as ‘BURG’.)

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BURG Gets Update, Updated Instructions

The GRUB menu animating/themeing application ‘BURG’ received a PPA update today resulting in some changes to how you install themes. If you have yet to install BURG then you can skip this article and follow our original – now revised – tutorial @ this link here. If you already have BURG installed and get ‘theme [...]

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