In case anyone misses them, I ported the cool splash screens that were included with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) as Plymouth themes! These are pretty customizable too, so you could replace the Ubuntu logo with your distribution's logo, for example. To get an idea of what it looks like, check this...

Marylin Monroe inspiration for this plymouth theme . (find also attached a grub theme if you want a full "tribute"...) Animated signature of Marylin [based on the work of Markospoko (ubuntu paw)] it works on my ubuntu16.04 screen 1366x768 (should work everywhere) The file readme will give you...

Bass SoCool Slick Line Ani-01 is inspired mostly by the coolness of nice bassy sounds =) Don't be shy, give it a try, hesitation isn't good for you, trust me, I'm a doctor ;-). I believe in you capability to download and set it up, after all what have you got to lose, if you don't like it you...

A plymouth theme for Arch Linux, based on plymouth-theme-paw-arch

NEWLY UPDATED! We want to bring Tux, the Linux penguin, to Ubuntu! From boot to desktop we've created themes that include Tux in all the right places. It's free and open-source and installs with just one bash command. For an installer and more details check out: https://tux4ubuntu.org

Plymouth theme inspired by Amiga's Guru Meditation screen. Modified from the theme "sabily".

Plymouth/bootscreen style Mac & Linux, Developed from Persona Plymouth (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1281879/) How to install (from file manager) - Download macbuntu-ver.1.0.tar.xz file - Extract here - Open folder macbuntu-ver.1.0 - Run install.sh How to install (from terminal) - Download...

Plymouth boot splash based on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plymouth-theme-arch-logo-new/ I don't have a screenshot for this, but it's exactly the same plymouth bootsplash as theme-arch-logo-new with the artix logo attached.

Plymouth boot splash based on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plymouth-theme-arch-logo-new/ I don't have a screenshot for this, but it's exactly the same plymouth bootsplash as theme-arch-logo-new with the gentoo logo attached.

to install: 1. copy file to usr/share/plymouth/themes 2. run in terminal: sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/utnapishtim/utnapishtim.plymouth 100 sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth sudo...