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Eye candy at early bootup

May 11, 2026 — BarryK

Forum member l0wt3ch has implemented an animated gif on the screen in the very early stage of bootup, while execution is in the initrd:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=13911

Like it! Have put this into woofQ2, with the animated EasyOS logo. The woofq2/source/yocto section of woofQ2 has a recipe to compile gif_play, statically-linked with musl.

Right now, will do the in yocto to build an aarch64 'gp' statically-linked executable.   

Tags: easy