GeckoLinux
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
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".
