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GeckoLinux Gets Major Update Across All Editions, Based on openSUSE Tumbleweed

GeckoLinux Rolling 999.161031 is now the latest version of the GNU/Linux distribution, and it appears to be a total rebase with a brand new kernel from the Linux 4.8 series (version 4.8.4), as well as recent components like the GNU C Library 2.24, FreeType2 2.7, Qt 5.7.0, and systemd 228. For connoisseurs, the new version is based on snapshot 20161031 of openSUSE Tumbleweed, which also follows a rolling release model. Additionally, GeckoLinux Rolling 999.161031 introduces unified theming of GTK+ and Qt applications, thanks to the implementation of the libqt5-qtstyleplugins-platformtheme-gtk2 package, and updates the GeckoLinux language-installer.sh script to better support non-English languages, making installing alternative language packs a lot easier than before.

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