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Amen. I came here just to propose that but instead would "me too" your post. Maybe KDE core developer guys are too busy to maintain the distro but it sure would be nice to have a "reference" KDE-oriented desktop package. I tried a lot recently and none are exactly what I'd like it to be (and I'm too old to fiddle around and compile all the stuff myself). Mandriva (2007) possibly comes closest but still it's not ideal (where "ideal" means that I can safely recommend it to my non-Linux savvy friends and relatives). For example - clicking on RPM opens useless "Archive manager" in KDE whereas in Gnome it runs installer. Etc...

Other distros are pretty much a joke as far as KDE goes. PCLinuxOS maybe is cool but it's English only and in _most_ of the world it's the stopper. Kubuntu looks just plain lame, buggy and bastardized. Sorry.

Please - somebody - make a simple, fast, stable KDE based distro (as in everything works as expected and does NOT crash). Don't bother with CD format - make it a DVD and include everything (KDevelop, PyKDE too...) but install only one (best ) program of every kind.

Oh, and if only KOffice imports "those evil documents" at least on par with OpenOffice - that would be bliss... But I digress.

I agree with u kubuntu is just crashed distro. not much stable i am a kubuntu user but not satisfied with it other hand i love kde but.....
no distro is available for kde as default. free spire or linspire use it as default desktop Environment but these distroes are not much popular and a lot of things have to do for their enhancement.

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Originally posted by wasge
Did anybody think make KDE's own linux distribution?

There have been plans for this in the past, but it takes a lot of time and resources to build and maintain a linux distribution.
And KDE itself does not have these resources.

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openSUSE has changed the default desktop to Gnome

That's not true.

We already have a OS, it's name is Kubuntu. It's exactly the result of the idea you had.

I haven't played with it enough, but maybe this is what you're looking for:

http://underground.geekcode.info/portal/posts/

I agree!

KDE already has a list of Required, Recommended and Optional list of packages which the end user should acquire in order to have the best KDE experience.

I have often wondered why we don't have a simple plain distro built with just the "required" list of packages needed to make KDE function.

Then once the graphical system is up and going the user could install the packages listed in the "recommended" list either in bulk or pick and choose one at a time.

This could also be done with the "Optional" list of packages as well.

I for one would LOVE to have just such a pristine KDE system. I think others would as well. If anyone is interested in joing me in putting such a simple distro together I would be happy to start it.

This should definantly be done before (if?) CNR technology is adapted as the package "install" standard.

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I for one would LOVE to have just such a pristine KDE system.

Well, go ahead and download kubuntu

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Did anybody think make KDE's own linux distribution?

I got another idea, why not KDE BSD?

I believe part of the reason is that KDE is not exclusively for linux but is a desktop manager for unix-like systems. Agnosticism is a good thing in software.

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Originally posted by Frenris
I got another idea, why not KDE BSD?

We already have one: PC-BSD

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Originally posted by Rinse

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Originally posted by Frenris
I got another idea, why not KDE BSD?

We already have one: PC-BSD

PC-BSD is actually thinking of creating its own desktop manager, Kamel (or was it window manager, same difference, still wouldn't be vanilla KDE ). Besides, DesktopBSD is better

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Originally posted by Frenris
[PC-BSD is actually thinking of creating its own desktop manager, Kamel (or was it window manager, same difference, still wouldn't be vanilla KDE ).

Is that so?
Hmm, they probably don't realise what it means to maintain a full blown desktop

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Besides, DesktopBSD is better

Also with KDE, so we would still have one

Ah, but DesktopBSD is not maintained by KDE, but by another party.

Yep, which is a good thing

i don't think it's a good idea for kde to maintain a operating system, one of the reasons is that kde itself would be competing with the operating systems/distributions it relies on.

Ark Linux is made by a KDE developer. As close as you can get, I guess.
Get involved:
http://www.arklinux.org/index.php?page_id=105&language=en

A Gentoo based LiveDVD Linux distribution could be made... with whole KDE installed

Sidux looks cool as wel!!

I'm not too adept in the build of a Linux dostro but I think the speciality of such a distro could be replacing everything, even command line tools with KDE API based ones. For example I would love to use kioslaves in the command line. Does this make sense?

That really makes sense. And hey, it's been possible for years. See the kfmclient command and kfmclient --commands for it's capabilities.

"See the kfmclient command and kfmclient --commands for it's capabilities."
Yes, that's a good thing. But it still has a limited functionality, not all that Linux command line programs have.