GeckoLinux is a Linux distribution based on openSUSE.
It has 8 editions: Cinnamon, XFCE, Gnome, Plasma, Mate, Budgie, LXQt, and “BareBones”.
Features include:
- An installable live DVD / USB image based on openSUSE under 2GB in size.
- Individual editions for many different popular desktop environments with a pleasant default configuration.
- Carefully selected open source desktop programs and proprietary media codecs pre-installed and ready to use.
- Btrfs subvolume layout with Zstd transparent compression and automatic Snapper snapshots bootable via GRUB for easy rollbacks.
- Beautiful open source font rendering configured out of the box.
- Optimal power management with TLP pre-installed.
- Much more open source and patent encumbered software available in the pre-configured repositories.
- Uses the excellent infrastructure already in place for openSUSE, with no repackaging or modification of packages.
- An installed system can be smoothly upgraded to future openSUSE releases while retaining its unique GeckoLinux configuration.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | Budgie, Cinnamon, GNOME, IceWM, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, Pantheon, Xfce |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | RPM |
| Release Model: | Fixed and Rolling |
| Platforms: | x86-64 |
| Home Page: | geckolinux.github.io |
| Developer: | GeckoLinux |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distros which is currently under development. |
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