Disabling graphical boot and starting applications early

[Tom H]

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Daniel Dalton
<daniel.dalton at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 01:45:35PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
>>
>> Couldn't one just uninstall (as in apt-get remove) the plymouth
>> packages.
>
> No, because there are way to many dependencies, which is pretty silly
> for a graphical boot splash package.

It's also a logger and it's needed for that reason.

If you install an Ubuntu server, plymouth is active and there's no
splash - you can set up Ubuntu with a DE installed to boot the same
way.