A new patch series that was posted this week allow for users to more easily replace the default kernel boot logo. While many of us are long accustomed to seeing the picture of Tux as the kernel boot logo, for those preferring to better customize your console boot experience these patches allow it to be easily manipulated via the kernel configuration “Kconfig” options.
Some already modify the Linux kernel boot logo themselves via patching the source code and Makefile. But a patch series sent out by Vincent Mailhol allow for more easily customizing the boot logo via the kernel configuration. With relying on the boot logo file location via the Kconfig also allows cleaning up some of the code’s logic as well.
You know, I don’t think I’ve seen that in years. Do CentOS and Debian have it disabled? I know some distros have a graphical boot thing, but even if I switch to text I don’t remember seeing Tux.
I run both CachyOS and Bazzite. They have graphical stuff for the initial load screens, but I’ve seen their text-based loading screens from time to time for troubleshooting purposes, and I don’t recall seeing Tux either.
I’m curious who sees Tux when they boot up.
Only systems that have framebuffer console enabled at boot I guess.
Recovery mode booting would probably be normal 80x25 text console in case there was something up with framebuffer initialisation.
I have NixOS and the initialization is text based and I never saw it either. Want to enable it now :)
Also have forced text boot in Ubuntu and didn’t see it there