This package enables a graphical boot screen similar to that of of Windows. Features include: . - Nice graphics (JPEG) - Antialiased text rendering (TrueType) - Animations (MNG) - Progress Bar - Display of boot messages above or below a graphic. - Fully themeable . This package contains only the bootsplash userland tools. You need a patched bootsplash kernel in order to use boot splash. The userland tools consist of utilities for creating splash images and utilities and scripts used internally by bootsplash to draw text and play animations.