[mdlug-newbie] While I'm At It...

[Aaron Kulkis]

Joseph Bennett wrote:
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> Joseph Bennett wrote:
>>   
>>> In addition to my question about DVD burner stubborness, let me toss in
>>> this question while I'm at it:
>>> This morning I got that wintery, penguin tumbling splash screen when I
>>> turned on the machine.  Why, at my age, it should be so, I do not know,
>>> but I like that splash screen.  What do I have to do to get it ongoing,
>>> instead of just appearing, unbidden, every so often? 
>>>     
>>
>> I use SuSE, and I've never seen such a thing when I boot up.
>>
>>
>>   
>>> I'm reasonably intelligent, but I really don't know much about the
>>> internal workings of Linux, so please keep any suggestion
>>> simple...really simple.  And thank you.
>>>     
>>
>> What distro are you using, because what you described
>> isn't standard.
>>
>>   
>>> Joe Bennett
>>> Dearborn
>>>     
>>
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>>   
> AK...
> Non-standard? Quite a surprise, since it came with a 10.2 distro 
> purchased straight from SuSe, DVD/CD package.  I used the DVD to 
> install, and did nothing fancy, because I do not know how to do anything 
> fancy.

Ah, I'm on 10.1, and i've never seen that in any of the
6.x, 7.x, 8.x or 9.x versions...


>  
> It is quite an attractive splash screen.  Your boot options are enclosed 
> in a plaque-like rectangle, draped with snow, and a little penguin skips 
> back and forth in the snow across the top of the plaque while at the 
> right margin of the screen, another penguin tumbles over and over from 
> the top to the bottom, representing the timer. When he hits bottom, the 
> machine boots. Cute.
> 

Cool