Canonical contributing upstream improvements to Plymouth ahead of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

I guess current world events are starting to affect the flow of news in our sector, too, since there's a decided lack of interesting stuff to talk about. So, let's talk about this:

One of the immediate differences Ubuntu 20.04 desktop/laptop users will notice when booting in UEFI mode is the boot splash screen improvements thanks to leveraging Red Hat's work on providing a flicker-free boot experience and pulling in the UEFI BGRT system/motherboard logo during the boot process to provide a more transitive experience. Canonical in turn is working on pushing some of their improvements back into upstream Plymouth.

The Ubuntu 20.04 LTS boot experience is on-par to what has been found in Fedora and other Linux distributions like Arch Linux for over one year.

I love it when different distributions and other projects work together to improve something that isn't particularly sexy or high on anybody's agenda, yet still is a welcome improvement. This is a great example of that.