This tutorial shows how you can add a splash image to your GRUB 2 boot loader on Ubuntu 9.04. Please note that you should use this tutorial only if you have upgraded your bootloader to GRUB 2 previously.

This tutorial will explain How to change the boot splash screen (Plymouth's boot image, or color, behind the "Ubuntu..." logo from purple to whatever you would like) image for 10.04

GNU Graphics Grub is the new Grub boot screen which adds to Visual appeal of Boot Screen .. Unlike older grub GFX Grub has now much better themes and customization options.. So lets take a quick look at How To Install GFX GrubBoot Menu..

One of the annoyances I've had with Ubuntu is that adding the Kubuntu packages to the system also hijacks the startup splash to that of Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu. Follow these simple instructions to change the startup splash screen on Ubuntu 10.04.

With Epidermis you can change the following themes by just a click ,Wallpapers, Metacity window border themes, GTK widget themes ,Icon sets ,GNOME splash images, Mouse cursor themes, Grub bootsplash screen,Usplash bootsplash screen,GDM login screen, Xsplash themes

What's new in Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6? Well... first of all, there is no more Usplash (the boot splash screen). So it appears the the team has successfully managed to fulfill their initial plans for making a faster startup where a boot screen is no longer necessary.

Ubuntu 9.10 will use GRUB 2 as its default bootloader, replacing GRUB legacy.  In this post, we take a look at some of the new features offered by this change.

Zorin Splash Manager is a simple application help you to change the theme of Ubuntu desktop. The screen shot of the GUI is given below.

For some users (myself included) GRUB is a critical screen where you can select which operating system you want to load. That could be a different Linux kernel on the same OS, a different Linux distribution altogether or even Windows. Usually the way GRUB works by default is the user gets to select which kernel/OS they want to load with a time delay before a default kernel OS loads.