GeckoLinux – A Distro ready to use on desktop

GeckoLinux, it is a reduced version of openSUSE with only one desktop environment at a time. You can download an ISO with Plasma, another with GNOME, with Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE, Budgie, LXQT, etc. But there is no ISO with all desktops at once.

However, there are only 64-bit versions, with sizes of about 1GB to burn to DVDs or USBs. GeckoLinux provides two main editions: Static (based on openSUSE Leap) and Rolling Continuous Release (based on openSUSE Tumbleweed), you should also know that there is GeckoLinux Plasma NEXT, with some unstable repositories.

GeckoLinux Features

Among several of its features, it integrates various pre-installed applications such as Firefox, KTorrent, Pidgin, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Okular, VLC, Clementine, Konsole, KCalc, Kate, GParted, YaST, K3B, Chromium, etc. Although Adobe Flash is absent, therefore the content that depends on it on the network will not work if you do not install it, although these are not all its features and that is why we will see which are the main ones.

▸As expected, it does not need too many resources since it conforms to 480MB of main memory

▸Individual editions for many different popular desktop environments with nice default settings

▸Much more open source and patent-encumbered software available in preconfigured repositories

▸Handpicked open source desktop programs and proprietary media codecs pre-installed and ready to go

▸An installed system can be seamlessly upgraded to future versions of openSUSE while retaining its unique GeckoLinux configuration.

▸A fairly small openSUSE-based installable live DVD / USB image, about 1GB in size

Check also:
openSUSE what you should know about it
Why switch to Linux as an operating system?

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