KDE Linux

“KDE Linux” is a work-in-progress name of a KDE-owned general-purpose Linux distribution proposed at Akademy 2024. Not to be confused with KDE Neon.

Warning

This page serves as a design document, thus information presented here should be considered a snapshot of the ongoing discussion, not final decisions.

TODO: background, motivation

Goals

TODO

Target audience and use cases

TODO (vision of user experience; explore personas?)

Requirements

TODO

Architecture

TODO (hardware support, file system, base disro, boot process, software separation, security model, deployment, updates and rollbacks, localization, OEM mode; proposed solution, alternatives, trade-offs for each section)

Related projects

TODO (how are we different from Neon, from Kinoite, from other immutable distros)

Roadmap

TODO (milestones)

Long-term maintenance

TODO (team and infrastructure requirements for long-term sustainability after release; update cycles; testing infrastructure; architectural future-proofness)

Governance

TODO

Promotion

TODO (name and branding, public image, effect on relations with other distros and hardware partners)

Communication

• Matrix room
• Gitlab issues

Prototype

The code is currently located here. Note that it is not representative of the final product and exists solely as an experimental playground for now.

Resources

• Presentation by Harald Sitter at Akademy 2024 (slides, recording).