Plymouth is an application which provides a graphical boot experience for Linux.

Plymouth supports animations using Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) and the KMS driver.

Plymouth is bundled with an initial ramdisk which allows it to run before the file system is mounted.

Some sources claim that Plymouth is named after Plymouth Rock, symbolizing the program's role as the first thing a user sees, but this has not been confirmed in any official capacity.

[5] Plymouth can now be found in much of the desktop Linux space.