Linux graphical bootsplash

Linux graphical bootsplash allows you to use custom graphics during early system startup. It makes it possible to place a nice graphic behind or above the kernel boot messages.

Linux graphical bootsplash hooks into the fbcon layer and, if activated, searches the initial ramdisk for a JPEG picture to show.

On any output operations to the console, it takes care of painting a margin around your text and a background picture behind the text with a set of special cfb functions.

Features:

• Nice graphics (JPEG)
• Antialiased text rendering (TrueType)
• Animations (MNG)
• Progress Bar
• Display of boot messages above or below a graphic. ("verbose" and "silent" modes)
• Fully themeable

What is new in this release:

• The bootsplash patch was updated to apply cleanly against Linux kernel 2.6.21.