Pretty sure it's the GNU Bison? Something like that. GNU/Linux, get it?

> This may be off topic but, what is the animal on the left?
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     I've been playing with GRUB2 and splash screens.  I've got it
>     working so
>     I wanted to make an lfs screen with a somewhat dark background so that
>     the menu would show over it.
>
>     I played around with gimp and came up with:
>
>        http://linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/lfs.png
>     <http://linuxfromscratch.org/%7Ebdubbs/lfs.png>
>
>     I thought I'd share it.  The base image is from
>
>       http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tux
>
>     To use it in GRUB2, first make a font:
>
>     wget  http://unifoundry.com/unifont-5.1.20080820.bdf.gz
>     gunzip unifont-5.1.20080820.bdf.gz
>     grub-mkfont -o unifont.pf2 unifont-5.1.20080820.bdf
>     cp unifont.pf2 /boot/grub
>
>     Then I created a 1024x768 tga version of the above file and put
>     that in
>     /boot/grub.
>
>     Finally I updated /boot/grub/grub.config to add:
>
>     ### grub.cfg
>     set default=0
>     set timeout=15
>
>     insmod ext2
>     set root=(hd0,1)
>
>     loadfont /grub/unifont.pf2
>     #set gfxmode="1024x768;800x600;640x480"
>     insmod gfxterm
>     insmod vbe
>     insmod tga
>
>     terminal_output gfxterm
>     if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
>         terminal gfxterm
>     fi
>
>     if background_image /grub/lfs.tga ; then
>        set menu_color_normal=light-gray/black
>        set menu_color_highlight=white/black
>     else
>        set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
>        set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
>     fi
>     ...
>
>     Works for me and looks pretty decent.  There is some GRUB2 generated
>     text over the words in the image, but it doesn't distract too much.
>
>     Enjoy.
>
>       -- Bruce
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