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KDE's 'Other' Distro - KDE Linux - Now Available To Download In Pre-Alpha

"KDE Linux is an all-new desktop Linux distro being developed as a showcase for the KDE desktop project," reports The Register. "The project is still in a pre-alpha testing stage, but recently went public on the KDE website. Versions are available to download and try out." KDE Linux is an entire...

"The project is still in a pre-alpha testing stage, but recently went public on the KDE website. As an immutable distro, there's no package manager, for instance, so the user can't install Arch packages... You can only install sandboxed apps that go in their own corner of the OS, and here the plan is that users will install Flatpak (and possibly Snap, "if it's not too hard and the UX is OK") packages using the KDE Discover app store. And while their test of current work-in-progress/test version kept crashing, "the promise is considerable, and this could turn out to be one of the most radical end-user distros out there."

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