Episode 3:14: GeckoLinux and the Side Quest Linux User Space

Coming up in this episode



Helping one helps the other
A little off the beaten path
The history of GeckoLinux
And our experience
What will we think of next?


The Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX5OUEGvlYc


0:00 Cold Open
1:35 Framasoft is Everywhere
5:41 Side Quest, Endeavour
10:03 Side Quest, Vanilla
19:04 GeckoLinux History 2001-2005
21:04 2015
24:39 2016-2022
29:00 2022 - January 2023
34:49 Couple of Sam Things
45:14 How It Went
53:14 Side Quest, Catppuccin
55:00 Side Quest, Ghostwriter
1:00:00 Next Time
1:07:21 Stinger




Banter


Framasoft is the association behind both FreshRSS and Peertube
Dan's been on EndeavourOS Cassini
Leo's been trying out VanillaOS started by Mirko Brombin
Dan's new favorite theme - Catppuccin Macchiato




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Gecko Linux the History


GeckoLinux
openSUSE
November 13, 2015, the first release of GeckoLinux 421.15.1113.6 was announced
Explaining the version number
In December 2015, alongside Cinnamon, XFCE, Gnome and Budgie were added. In addition a BareBones edition. And a few days later Plasma, Mate, and LXQt get their first ISOs
SUSE Studio Express
Budgie put on ice for a while.
Pantheon is added. AND the Budgie ROLLING and NEXT editions make a return.
A vote for which default filesystem was held with btrfs winning. The same vote, but for the STATIC edition was held.
Static will have a sunset in the future due to the change in LEAP
Since that has happened yet GeckoLinux released after 15.4


Extra Information


https://www.linux.org/threads/linux-daydreaming.32228/post-109419
https://www.linux.org/threads/linux-daydreaming.32228/post-109458
https://www.linux.org/threads/hello-from-the-geckolinux-creator.32256/
https://www.linux.org/threads/hello-from-the-geckolinux-creator.32256/post-109567




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