Linux NetMag #3
Titel: Say "Welcome!" with Welcome2L, LinuxLogo or LiBoL
URL: http://www.linuxnetmag.de/de/issue3/m3logo1.html
How about
an operating system that welcomes you after booting?
If you do
not like the standard login, you should try Welcome2L,
LinuxLogo and LiBoL.
Very early
the Linux community saw how useful a boot logo was in
that every user would recognize which operating system
was running. The simple login is enough if you login with
telnet but in other cases a small picture could be much
nicer.
The classical boot logo is
LinuxLogo and that's why its requirements for graphical
support are very low. LinuxLogo presents its logo with
standard characters and can be also used in a terminal.
The
picture does not look very nice and I prefer the terminal
login rather than this one.
| Welcome2L --
the demanding |
Still, it
cannot be used even in a X-terminal; it looks broken
there.
The installation is not
comfortable for beginners because of the use of
init-scripts is required. A manual is included and
describes the installation for many distributions.
| LiBoL -- the complete
solution |
It functions quite simply
and efficiently by using the standard program init
which handles starting the scripts. LiBoL replaces init
with it's own version that displays a picture, then
starts the original init. Due to the
ability of the Linux loader LILO to start any program
instead of init while booting, it is
easy to use a different one.
After installing LiBoL
successfully (which happens with a comfortable scripts),
the option "init=/path/logoinit" can be
used behind the kernel name in LiLo. If everything
functioned well, you could add this option into /etc/lilo.conf
.
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