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GeckoLinux

GeckoLinux 153.220104, with the Cinnamon desktop environment
OS family	Linux (Unix-like)
Working state	Current
Source model	Open source, with proprietary drivers and media codecs available or provided by default
Initial release	27 May 2016; 8 years ago (2016-05-27)
Latest release	Static: 154.220822 / 27 August 2022; 2 years ago (2022-08-27) Rolling: 999.220820 / 27 August 2022; 2 years ago (2022-08-27)
Repository	github.com/geckolinux
Available in	Multilingual
Package manager	Zypper, YaST (Graphical)
Platforms	x86-64
Kernel type	Monolithic (Linux)
Userland	GNU
Default user interface	Cinnamon, Xfce, GNOME, KDE, MATE, Budgie, LXQt, Pantheon
Official website	geckolinux.github.io

GeckoLinux is a Linux distribution based on openSUSE. It is available in two editions: Static, which is based on openSUSE Leap, and Rolling, which is based on openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Features

Some of GeckoLinux's features include:

• "improved" font rendering
• live ISO's with various desktop environments
• offline calamares installer
• PackageKit is not used or installed by default
• pre-configured Packman repository
• proprietary media codecs & drivers are pre-installed
• recommended packages are not forcefully installed as recommended dependencies after installation
• TLP for power management

Version history

This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (May 2022)

Static

Rolling

Reception

Dedoimedo wrote a non-positive review of GeckoLinux 150.180616, saying that it had "issues with multimedia playback, visual glitches and the graphics driver". A subsequent review of GeckoLinux Static 152 in February 2021 was more positive.

Jack M. Germain explains how & why "GeckoLinux doing for the OpenSuse/Suse world much of what Linux Mint did for the Ubuntu universe".

Gallery

Notes

1. "GeckoLinux prefers packages from the Packman repo when they are available, whereas some of openSUSE's default packages don't work with patent-restricted features even if the features are installed from other sources."

See also

• openSUSE
• Rolling release

References

1. "all editions Major re-spin of Plasma edition, Cinnamon 3.0, new Budgie version theme improvements". Google Groups.
2. "GeckoLinux [STATIC] [all editions] 154.220822". Github.
3. "GeckoLinux [ROLLING] [all editions] 999.220820". Github.
4. "openSUSE-Based GeckoLinux Distro Getting Smoother and More Reliable Startup". Softpedia News. 29 October 2017.
5. ^ "GeckoLinux - Linux for Detail Orientied Geckos". Archived from the original on 2022-05-06. Retrieved 2022-05-06.
6. "GeckoLinux: A Polished Distro Just Got Smoother" (Reviews). LinuxInsider. 11 January 2018.
7. ^ "A look at OpenSUSE based GeckoLinux". gHacks Tech News. 6 August 2017.
8. "GeckoLinux Review: A Hassle-Free openSUSE Spin". It's FOSS. 11 September 2017.
9. "GeckoLinux 421 Plasma review - It ain't no dragon". Dedoimedo.
10. "GeckoLinux Brigns Flexibility and Choice to openSUSE". Linux.com. 8 December 2017.
11. "GeckoLinux: This Baby Know What It's Doing" (Reviews). LinuxInsider. 11 December 2015.
12. ^ "GeckoLinux-updates". Google Groups.
13. ^ "DistroWatch.com: Gecko".
14. "DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 667, 27 June 2016".
15. "[Static] [Next] [all editions] 150.180607 update". Google Groups.
16. "Distribution Release: GeckoLinux 150". DistroWatch.com News.
17. "Release [STATIC] [all editions] 150.180607 update · geckolinux/geckolinux-project". GitHub.
18. "Released Last Week". DistroWatch Weekly.
19. "GeckoLinux Is the First Linux Distro Based on openSUSE Leap 15, Download Now". Softpedia News. 11 June 2018.
20. "[Rolling] [all editions] New GeckoLinux "Rolling" editions based on openSUSE Tumbleweed". Google Groups.
21. "GeckoLinux 150 Static Plasma review - Not quite". Dedoimedo. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
22. "GeckoLinux Static 152 - sussing out the desktop experience".
23. "GeckoLinux Beta Does openSuse Better". LinuxInsider. 8 November 2017. Retrieved 2020-07-30.

External links

• GeckoLinux at DistroWatch

• Linux distributions
• RPM-based Linux distributions
• X86-64 Linux distributions
• Rolling release Linux distributions