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

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".