Welcome note on Puppy Linux boot up screen

Is it fun to display a welcome note with your name while booting up Puppy linux? If you think so, you can continue reading. Here I am telling how to set up your Puppy Linux to display "Welcome, {your name}" at boot up. Probably you can do this in other Linux based OS with slight or no modifications. But nowadays bulky operating system intentionally hide the boot up screen with a splash image.
First of all, navigate to /etc/rc.d
Then open 'rc.sysinit' . You should have root privileges in order to edit this file. Read carefully the 'Read me' file before going to do anything. If you are not going to take a risk, back up the file into any other externally accessible directory.
After you open the file in your favourite text editor, just go through the file, you will notice that, this script is automatically executed at every boot up. Go to the end of the file and append the following script.

##########CUSTOM SCRIPT##############
echo -n "

" >/dev/console
/bin/echo -e "\\033[10G\\033[1;34mWelcome, {Your name}\\033[0;39m" >/dev/console
echo -n "

" >/dev/console
sleep 2
###################################

Edit the script with your name instead of '{Your name}'. The script is nothing but an echo statement to the console. It is possible to change the display properties by changing the parameters along with the text. First test it in terminal and then write script is recommended. Now save the file and reboot.
Done.
If you avoid 'sleep 2' statement, you may not see the text at boot up. One best way is remove the line 'sleep 2' and set a login password for Puppy as I did. Then Puppy gives a cool welcome to you and then ask password.

Puppy Linux : Give life to your Thumb drive

If you didn't tried Puppy Linux - one of the smallest Linux, core's yet-remember, you have only one life, try Puppy today itself. Puppy Linux - the name is not much inspiring for geeks, but I found it is the most stable and useful OS in the pocket Linux category.
It has the following advantages over other less-sized Linux operating systems.

• Small sized. Ranges between 80MB to 150MB
• Install anywhere - HDD, USB Pen drive, biz. card sized CDs. (You can use ordinary CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs - but it is too big for puppy.)
• Easy to use.
• Official website offers boot time of less than 1 minute. But it is typically less than 15s in my Intel P4 with 2GB RAM.
• Puppy is beautiful than any other pocket OS.
• Smart and crash free. I used more than 10 Linux flavors. Everything crashed, but I haven't experienced Puppy's crash.
• Puppy sessions are saved in *.sfs file. It can be placed everywhere. Puppy search for it at boot time to recover the previous session. There are a number of fundamental advantages for that. I found many of my friend's computers not supporting USB boot. Of course they can boot from a CD-RW but it is not writable. Puppy offers several ways to overcome it. One is that, it can write previous sessions in CD as a multi session write. But it can be used until CD size limits. Another way is to write *.sfs file in HDD (for home usage) or USB pendrive ( for portability) and puppy kernel file in a a CD. So CD can be booted easily and can save sessions.
• You can resize puppy save session file while running.
• Comes with almost all drivers.
• A wide variety of Puppy flavors are officially and unofficially available. These flavors are called 'Pupplets'. Pupplets are intended for a particular task - ie, it supports a task greatly. There are pupplets for painters, gamers, processionals, children, students and so on.
• Brief and understanding tutorials, quick replying forums, community etc.

Once you downloaded Puppy, you have a lot of questions about installation, usage etc. Most of them answered in the official website and associated forums. Otherwise just google for that.