The splash screen for GRUB Legacy is an XPM image which appears as a background when you select which OS to boot. For those who are tired of the default splash screen, here is a short tutorial on how to change it.

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.

I was thinking about the future of Linux when it occurred to me that one path for its future can seen as a simple consequence of what we mean by “winning.” In other words, asking whether Linux will still be a winner in ten years leads first to the question of what we mean by “winner” and then to an answer about where Linux is going.

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.

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

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.

Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields has named the winner of the Fedora 11 naming sweepstakes...and the winner is: LEONIDAS.

After the new themes introduced yesterday, Canonical decided to update the boot splash screen (USplash) theme with a very nice one. As you can see in the image below, the logo is the same as it was in Ubuntu 8.10, but it's smaller and the loading bar was replaced with a thinner and nicer one (see the images below for more details).

Two weeks back, this blog had run a poll which asked which was your favourite editor. The poll was open for voting roughly for a period of two weeks or 14 days. And nearly 750 people participated in the poll.