Episode Details

Coming up in this episode

1. Helping one helps the other
2. A little off the beaten path
3. The history of GeckoLinux
4. And our experience
5. 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

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