From: Ray Strode Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:41:33 +0000 (-0500) Subject: [docs] Remove distribution references from man page X-Git-Tag: 0.8.0~83^2~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fcd88849b3fd2d63eec1dcea3940b0da96cdeeb9;p=thirdparty%2Fplymouth.git [docs] Remove distribution references from man page We don't want to provide a history of what distributions used before plymouth, because that history could get long, isn't super relevant, and will add noise for a users looking for help (they probably only care about their distributions, not others). --- diff --git a/docs/plymouth.8 b/docs/plymouth.8 index 493de72d..e9dd5d83 100644 --- a/docs/plymouth.8 +++ b/docs/plymouth.8 @@ -8,13 +8,12 @@ plymouth \- A graphical boot system and logger .SH DESCRIPTION \fBplymouth\fP is a a graphical boot system for Linux which takes advantage of the kernel-based mode setting (KMS) available for modern graphic cards to provide a seamless, flickerfree -and attractive boot screen. It supercedes the Red Hat graphical boot manager (RHGB) on Fedora -and Red Hat systems and replaces usplash with xplash on Ubuntu and Debian. It allows -to choose between various, static or animated graphical themes to spruce up the -startup and avoid the noise generated by the vast amount of kernel messages while -the machine boots into X. On systems where kernel-based mode setting is not available, -plymouth falls back to a text mode boot screen which provides a simple progress bar -to provide feedback during boot. +and attractive boot screen. It allows to choose between various, static or +animated graphical themes to spruce up the startup and avoid the noise +generated by the vast amount of kernel messages while the machine boots into X. +On systems where kernel-based mode setting is not available, plymouth falls +back to a text mode boot screen which provides a simple progress bar to provide +feedback during boot. .PP To configure plymouth, that is to choose and install the preferred boot theme, the user has to invoke \fBplymouth-set-default-theme\fP. It changes the configuration