Plymouth To Replace USplash In Ubuntu?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 11/28/2008 - 11:26.
We've talked about Plymouth now a number of times at Phoronix, which is Red Hat's RHGB replacement starting with Fedora 10 and uses newer Linux technologies like kernel mode-setting to drive this graphical boot screen. As we shared in our detailed analysis of Plymouth it also offers a number of plug-ins and APIs for creating some fairly unique visuals. Now it looks like Plymouth may make its way into Ubuntu.
There is now a Launchpad specification to evaluate Plymouth for Ubuntu and potentially use it to replacement the current USplash project.
kernel mode is cheatcodes for kudzu/anaconda ? Dbus is king ?
Kernel mode can replace Gentoo features? A quick way to have kudzu and anaconda merged into the kernels to do batch processing by cheatcodes in the installation of kernel features(drivers) and apps(data storage and communications). Kernels are disk operating system, drivers and ethernet network operating system.
It is much too late, anyhow? Plymouth maybe too late. Dashboards(even remote locations), definitely will be the future of any operating system.
As computer architecture simplify, USB multichannel bus(v1.0, 8 mhz clock; 2.0, 33 mhz clock; 3.0, 1 ghz edgeQam station carrier frequency and others in new chipsets, which supply the dashboard monitor data in another channel of data analyser) will replace many slow buses(ISA, PCI, PCIe, etc.). Drivers and firmware will be included in active USB peripherals. Dbus and Hal with packet converters(to ethernet, email, docsis and dotnet) will rule.
The many distros caught in the web of older Linux architecture will soon discover that stripping down Linux kernels and apps are important and Dashboards of computer functions are the killer utility to be developed, as more channels of data are being processed in parallel and must be monitored at the same time for data progress and its integrity.
Footnote:
Computer design is changing because of the evolution of copper high frequency network by repeaters. Teleco trunk line will evolve from T1 and DSLam to edgeQam, used already in cableTV copper network. Wireless cellphone will also use edgeQam in 3G network. This hardware change is inevitable because of multichannel video transmission. And Comcast channel one on demand is already a huge success after two years of development. Comcast will be able to send two way interactive programs to netphones soon. Unless Linux follows technology of netbooks and netphones closely; open source community will be way behind. Unix used by telcos will be the operating system with USB channels for data. Intranet with switching hubs(Cisco/Juniper) will be taken over by PBX edgeQam transceivers(256/1024 analog rf data channels transfer simultaneously on one pair of wires).