The Christmas grub screen is very cool. Thanks to all that made it happen!
Wasted on me though, only reboot for a kernel update. Maybe I’ll get to see it on my notebook. 
Oh my gosh! >:) Not again! How come Christmas has to come every year?
I went back through my archive and found that you can use the following command to eliminate those pesky penguins.
Open up a terminal session and type in:
sudo gfxboot --change-config penguin=0
This is how it is set per my old information but I have not tried to change this in openSUSE 12.1 yet:
**
penguin theme likelihood in percent**
1) -1 = auto and shows up around Christmas time (default).
2) 0 = never as command above.
3) 100 = show penguins every time, for all real penguin lovers.
Thank You,
Thank you, James.
I haven’t updated my (only) 12.1 kernel yet, but I bet that’s the important update they had in mind. I’m going to test your command as soon as I have seen what I’m going to be missing.
Love it!!! I see how some might not like it. Maybe if you give people a choice in the future if they want it or not? After all Linux is about freedom!
Thank you, I love it.
It works (on both 11.4 and 12.1)
# gfxboot --show-config | grep penguin
; If the penguin screen is active, section 'penguin' is automatically added
; penguin theme likelihood (in percent, -1 = auto)
**penguin=-1**
[penguin]
# gfxboot --change-config ** penguin=0**
# gfxboot --show-config | grep penguin
; If the penguin screen is active, section 'penguin' is automatically added
; penguin theme likelihood (in percent, -1 = auto)
**penguin=0**
[penguin]
I thought someone broke into my computer 
Thanks for the info on working please_try_again. My openSUSE 12.1 VM starting showing the penguin startup this weekend, but I have not rebooted my real copy yet. I am undecided as to if I will modify the default or not. On one hand the Penguins are cute and on the other hand it is annoying. I am just enough in the middle of the road to just let it work as normal automatically knowing that all too soon, it will stop again.
Thank You,
I love penguins in the Antarctic, not dancing around 30 boot entries on half a dozen computers around me. I don’t need to mention how often I boot the wrong OS, with or without the dancing penguins actually. Btw I have a stuffed Tux sitting in a corner, but he’s quite and doesn’t disturb me.
Wow, a stuffed Tux! I have a nice poster on the door in my room from Linux Format of Tux, but the only stuffed creature I have is a very small Intel Bunny suite guy I got long ago. Oh, those were the days. lol!
Thank you,
please try again wrote:
> jdmcdaniel3;2415210 Wrote:
>> On one hand the Penguins are cute and on the other hand it is annoying.
>
> I love penguins in the Antarctic, not dancing around 30 boot entries on
> half a dozen computers around me.
Perhaps it’s designed as a warning to remind you that you need to set up
all your machines so you don’t need to reboot them again before the end
of the xmas-new year holiday
Then I should just make holiday… or use virtual machines for everything - that’s probably what I will end up doing anyway. I’m getting so tired of fixing hardware…
On 2011-12-07 02:06, please try again wrote:
>
> jdmcdaniel3;2415210 Wrote:
>> On one hand the Penguins are cute and on the other hand it is annoying.
>
> I love penguins in the Antarctic, not dancing around 30 boot entries on
> half a dozen computers around me. I don’t need to mention how often I
> boot the wrong OS, with or without the dancing penguins actually. Btw I
> have a stuffed Tux sitting in a corner, but he’s quite and doesn’t
> disturb me.
Never happened to me. I actually configure the feature to be always active:
it makes people around have a look and ask what I’m using
I would like a similar one with different themes for each season.
More penguins! 
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Hi Carlos,
I agree! More Penguins! Different themes all the time for any reason especially around the holidays.
How could I have possibly written something like that?
Sorry about that. I intended to quote robin_listas](http://forums.opensuse.org/members/robin_listas.html) but I dumb thumbed it…
Good viruses don’t exist. The annoyance is dormant here (penguin=0) on all systems. Those who welcome the intrusion got what they deserved. 
0 should be the default on a secure OS then.
Makes sense when applied to weird popups during the boot process. 