Graphical splash screens in the RedHat bootstrap process caused the change, about 2 years before systemd even existed. * https://lwn.net/Articles/305047/ https

Graphical splash screens in the RedHat bootstrap process caused the change, about 2 years before systemd even existed. * https://lwn.net/Articles/305047/ https://lwn.net/Articles/305047/ * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterStartup http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterStartup * https://blogs.gnome.org/halfline/2009/11/28/plymouth-%E2%9F%B6-x-transition/ https://blogs.gnome.org/halfline/2009/11/28/plymouth-%E2%9F%... * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480113 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480113