EDIT: Sorry, not login but boot manager. :-/
How come the boot manager decided to switch to a christmas theme without my express consent?
Reasons not to do so would include:
]Security. Looks different equals might not be secure]Religion: Christmas implies Christianity which is evil*]Anger: After doing my (compulsory) christmas shopping I would for once like to not be reminded of the effin holiday even in my computer - especially if I have not requested such a feature!
It happens every year about this time and it is nothing to worry about. Read about here:
Thank You,
What makes you think it’s about X-mas? I see an igloo, ice, snow, some penguins behaving weird.
Uiva6 wrote:
> - especially if I have not requested such a feature!
you should return the product for a full refund and buy something
which suits you better…
on the other hand, it won’t offend you with with its evil
often…probably not again until next year…
on the third hand you can get rid of it, but i don’t remember
how…Google should know…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
I feel annoyed that I can’t put my wide range of languages on stupid
Facebook. For example, I speak Sarcasm, fluently spoken and written,
and Various Forms of Geek…
DenverD wrote:
> on the third hand
sorry i forgot to mention: the folks (openSUSE developers, coders,
hackers, etc) that make those kinds of decisions are almost never here
in this web based forum (a forum of mostly users who volunteer to help
other user)…
so, if you wanna register your ire officially do it via bugzilla:
http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports
or as a feature request through FATE: https://features.opensuse.org/
or, if you just wanna talk about it, that would be best done on the
one of the mail lists or IRC, see how here:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
I feel annoyed that I can’t put my wide range of languages on stupid
Facebook. For example, I speak Sarcasm, fluently spoken and written,
and Various Forms of Geek…
I’m sorry, have you not realized you can get openSUSE for free?
I was expressing my distaste for a feature I find offending and questionable in terms of security. Am I not allowed to do so?
I think there’s a bug, since it appeared first time about a month ago, then disappeared, then came again christmas-time. Or maybe it expects me to celebrate thanksgiving or something. (Most of the World - even most of the Western World - doesn’t, by the way.)
I see these are your first posts here, thus welcome.
Please next time try first a search on these forums. The same subject has been addressed several times around december/january for several years and there was one just a few days ago.
I may refer to several things allready mentioned above:
. we are users trying to help other users, thus do not start your thread in a way that seems to make us guilty of anything inside openSUSE;
. we are not the developers, links to places where they are are above;
. with my scant knowledge of Christmas, i do not see anything related to it in that screen like Knurpht said. I repeat this because you repeat above that you relate it to Christmas because it is Christmas time, then that relation is in made in your mind, not on that screen.
. it is just penguins, Tux the Linux symbol, playing in the snow (as this is the place where most penguins live in popular believe).
. when you do not like to look at them for a maximum of eight seconds on a few random days between about half december and half january, one of the other threads to by found here by a search will reveal what you can do about it.
Enjoy openSUSE, with the few jokes that come with it.
And btw
I’m sorry, have you not realized you can get openSUSE for free?
I am afraid you missed that one. That is exactly what DenverD pointed at, you get what you paid for and can complain for the same amount.
I think there’s a bug, since it appeared first time about a month ago, then disappeared, then came again christmas-time
it is not a bug but a type of " easter egg" in grub . It was started back in 1999 ? i think?
If you do not like it then you are free to rebuild your boot image and remove it . but seeing as it has been around for a long time .So why remove it . Also SUSE is not the only OS fedora also can do this
On 2010-12-25 19:36, Uiva6 wrote:
> How come the boot manager decided to switch to a christmas theme
> without_my_express_consent?
You must be new in these lands 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
JohnVV wrote:
>
>>
>> I think there’s a bug, since it appeared first time about a month ago,
>> then disappeared, then came again christmas-time
> it is not a bug but a type of " easter egg" in grub . It was started
> back in 1999 ? i think?
> If you do not like it then you are free to rebuild your boot image and
> remove it . but seeing as it has been around for a long time .So why
> remove it . Also SUSE is not the only OS fedora also can do this
I haven’t heard a word about this from any of the users I support. I guess
the main reason is that re-boots are so rare that they miss the window every
year. Must be a downside of reliability - you miss a lot of this stuff…
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Will Honea
Oh vey, it’s a christian virus!!11eleven!1one!!11!
Seriously, this made me chuckle. 
On 2010-12-25 21:36, Uiva6 wrote:
> I was expressing my distaste for a feature I find offending and
> questionable in terms of security. Am I not allowed to do so?
Then remove it yourself.
You must be new here, not to know that nice feature.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
guess you must be new to opensuse? By the way your “anger” is rather juvenile - reminds me of some overly dramatic teenager who thinks he knows more than everyone else, so since you do, then my suggestion to you is to go back to Windows or remove and recompile the offending code out!
I’m pretty sure that it was installed that way when you first installed, and you did give your consent to install.
Note: I purchased the install DVD package as a way of giving a little back to suse. And when I boot from that, the penguins show up. So it was part of the original distro.
This thread is as full of win, as it is full of fail…
Neil
To the OP, It is NOT a Christmas theme although anyone has the right to associate it as such if THEY choose. It is winter theme triggered by default to come on randomly from dec 1st to Jan 31st each year. It is handled as a feature by gfx_boot which can be changed with gfxboot penguins=% where 0% = never show 100% = always show. It became a feature of GRUB gfx_boot in 1998 and in fact can be modified to as per one of my other posts to display a multitude of backgrounds. It would be an issue if it was an un-configurable thing I guess.
Religion: Christmas implies Christianity which is evil
I,m an atheist, I have no preference for religion, if the above statement was in reference to a Buddhist or Muslim religion would it even be allowed?
By the way I like the “Christmas” theme.
As a mod I must refer to the Terms. No religion on these Forums.
I think that it is pointed out clearly that the penguins playing in the snow have no connection whatsoever with any religion (well, I hope that supporting Open Source in general and Linux in particular is not serious seen as the Tux religion by anybody).
(well, I hope that supporting Open Source in general and Linux in particular is not serious seen as the Tux religion by anybody).
That religion you may be able to sign me up to!