[ Thanks to Nate for this link.
]
“The first thing you’ll notice is the vast increase in
bootup speed thanks to the implementation of Plymouth – the
replacement for the ageing and increasingly fragile RHGB. Along
with the improvement in speed, the general look and feel of the
initial boot process feels a lot smoother thanks to work done to
minimise all the different handovers between the BIOS, GRUB, RHGB
and finally a smooth fade into the GDM login screen. Whilst not
complete for all graphics chipsets (you get the best effect from
Radeon-based cards) it’s certainly a big step in the right
direction and helps Fedora move ahead in boot up times. We
appreciate that this isn’t going to be particularly significant for
the server market, but certainly it will make a difference for
laptop and desktop users who shutdown after each use. Also of note
is the beautiful animation scheme that Plymouth delivers; not just
content with a simple status bar moving across the screen, you
instead get the Solar animation – reminiscent of a blue sun with
solar flares. If Mark Shuttleworth’s ‘Pretty is a Feature’ is
anything to by, then Fedora has just run up and tweaked his nose
quite severely!”