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+                            PYBOOTCHARTGUI
+                           ----------------
+
+pybootchartgui is a tool (now included as part of bootchart2) for
+visualization and analysis of the GNU/Linux boot process. It renders
+the output of the boot-logger tool bootchart (see
+http://www.bootchart.org/) to either the screen or files of various
+formats. Bootchart collects information about the processes, their
+dependencies, and resource consumption during boot of a GNU/Linux
+system. The pybootchartgui tools visualizes the process tree and
+overall resource utilization.
+
+pybootchartgui is a port of the visualization part of bootchart from
+Java to Python and Cairo.
+
+Adapted from the bootchart-documentation:
+
+  The CPU and disk statistics are used to render stacked area and line
+  charts. The process information is used to create a Gantt chart
+  showing process dependency, states and CPU usage.
+
+  A typical boot sequence consists of several hundred processes. Since
+  it is difficult to visualize such amount of data in a comprehensible
+  way, tree pruning is utilized. Idle background processes and
+  short-lived processes are removed. Similar processes running in
+  parallel are also merged together.
+
+  Finally, the performance and dependency charts are rendered as a
+  single image to either the screen or in PNG, PDF or SVG format.
+
+
+To get help for pybootchartgui, run
+
+$ pybootchartgui --help
+
+This code was originally hosted at:
+        http://code.google.com/p/pybootchartgui/