It uses usplash now, but have recently announced that they will be going with Plymouth and Nouveau for Nvidia drivers. The announcement is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/LucidBootExperience
It is also covered here: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ubuntu-10-4-lucid-boot-experience-changing-from-using-usplash-to-plymouth.html Roy 2009/12/3 Chris Miller <[email protected]> > On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Shaun Marolf wrote: > > You may not understand the decision but Canonical is looking to develop > > a desktop edition that can take on Mac and Windows and eventually win. > > Hmm more user friendly apps make sense in that regard. > > They won't be going anywhere in that direction until they can get their > head out of GTK+'s 20-year-old bum. It doesn't lend itself to rapid > application development (at all) and is a pain to debug. While superior > libraries such as Cocoa and .NET exist and improve with every release, GTK+ > seems to be standing stock-still. > > That so much free software exists in spite of GTK+ is a sign of people's > dedication to free and open-source software, not to GTK+'s success as a GUI > library. I think they'd be better off moving towards Qt, but even that > doesn't have the degree of polish and stability seen in modern commercial > products. > > Registered Linux Addict #431495 > For Faith and Family! | John 3:16! > http://cmiller.fsdev.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
