Akademy 2024 - The Akademy of Many Changes

This year's Akademy in Würzburg, Germany was all about resetting priorities, refocusing goals, and combining individual projects into a final result greater than the sum of its parts.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://akademy.kde.org/news/2024-09_akademy-2024-report/
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Perhaps premature, but is there anywhere that folks can explore more about the KDE Linux piece in particular - concepts for distro architecture and repository management, how to get involved, etc.?

One way to achieve the desired level of integration is to control the entire software stack, right down to the operating system. This is also in the works for KDE, as Harald Sitter is working on a new technologically advanced operating system tentatively named “KDE Linux”. This operating system aims to break free of the constraints currently limiting KDE’s existing Neon OS and offer a superior experience for KDE’s developers, enthusiast users, and everyday users.

KDE Linux’s base system will be immutable, meaning that nothing will be able to change critical parts of the system, such as the /etc, /usr, and /bin, directories. User applications will be installed via self-contained packages, such as Flatpaks and Snaps. Adventurous users and developers will be able to overlay anything they want on top of the base system in a non-destructive and reversible way, without ever having to touch the core and risk not-easily-fixable breakage.

This will help provide users with a solid, stable, and secure environment, without sacrificing the ability to run the latest and greatest KDE software.

As the proof of the pudding is in the eating, Harald surprised the audience when he revealed towards the end of his talk that his entire presentation had been delivered using KDE Linux!

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You can watch the talk about KDE Linux from Akademy if you are interested.

As far as I understand its an atomic distro based on Archlinux. So Flatpak/Snaps for Apps.

You can find install instructions on the gitlab repo (not for regular users, this is not finished yet!): Harald Sitter / KDE Linux · GitLab

There is also a Matrix channel if you are interested in contributing.

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The talk is here: youtube under: /live/gTxRaBEUe-I?si=E4jprxsVS-C1-RHI&t=25936

Slides are at conf dot kde dot org under event/6/contributions/202/attachments/135/171/The%20Operating%20System.pdf

(took me some time to find but I cannot post links, ah)

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Thanks for providing the links! I modified your post to show the links, I hope that’s Ok for you.

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