Booted up today and got a very christmas’y boot screen, i called my wife, rebooted to show her, and it doesn’t do it again 
Is this a random thing, on a timer or just a one off built into the boot. Whatever it’s a thoughtful addition at this time of year. 
Regards
I was booting about 30 times today and saw 2 Christmas screens too
Guess I’ll have to switch over to 11.1’s GRUB install then, rather than add 11.1 to the old stuff!
I’ve actually still got a version of Space Invaders, done just with BIOS calls, that I used to add sometimes as a GRUB option, little diversions can be fun
tictoc2 wrote:
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> Booted up today and got a very christmas’y boot screen, i called my
> wife, rebooted to show her, and it doesn’t do it again
>
> Is this a random thing, on a timer or just a one off built into the
> boot. Whatever it’s a thoughtful addition at this time of year.
>
> Regards
>
>
IIRC the same was in 10.2 or .3 and it is a random thing.
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Mark…
Nil illegitimi carborundum
You can make it appear everytime: Short Tip: penguin Bootsplash
Yeah… nice little feature that pop’s up randomly in the month December.
I first saw it when using 10.3… but I guess it’s still in there! quite funny!
Thanks for the tip Beineri!
And did you discovered an easter egg?
Press F8 at the installation boot-up menu and come back with impressions.
I’ve just had it, booting off the Net Install CD!
It reminds of the Pingus based bootsplash, I installed once, for 7.3 or 8.1 or something, way back …