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 (Why?)

Target audience and use cases

TODO (vision of user experience; explore personas?)

Requirements

TODO (UX, minimum hardware requirements, maintainability, independence, etc.)

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 (prior art; 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).