<span class="gmail_quote"></span>I would like to thank everybody in the list for the answers given. Cris and Kurt have well clarified what I'm talking about.<br>Obviously, I already tried all the suggestions posted here.
<br>Many answers are like "Choose a well known distribution and stay with it" but...let's see an example:
<br><br>- If I was a Windows user in the year 2000 I still can have a Windows 2000 OS, still compatible with all the software around now.<br>- If I was a Red Hat user in the year 2000 (I have choosen a well known distribution: the first in the world)...
<br> RH 6.2, RH 7.0, RH 7.1, RH 7.2, RH 7.3, RH 8, RH 9, RH EL 2, RH EL 3, RH EL 4, Fedora 1, Fedora 2, Fedora 3, Fedora 4, Fedora 5, Fedora 6<br><br>and the other distros are not very different.<br><br>Why do I think that the only solution is KDE OS?
<br>Because we are talking about the Desktop and not about servers. I know there are 100000 flavours of Linux and KDE OS will be yet another one. <br>But KDE is "THE DESKTOP". <br>KDE can still remain platform independent and start a project for KDE OS. Robert says it is difficult to maintain 15000 pieces of software but 1) A Desktop-only project is not so wide 2) There are 100000 flavour of Linux already done to start with. It's not a Linux from scratch program.
<br><br>You can say "Why should an ISV choose KDE OS instead of the other 100000 flavours?" The answer is always the same: ISVs want a standard and the standard is ready now: KDE.<br>We can start to put a Debian engine and a drag/drop OSX style installer. I know it's not so easy, I said this only to semplify the view.
<br>A drag and drop installer and binary compatibility will cause many duplicate of some 100KB library? Is this a problem in the average 200 GB HD that every desktop user owns? It was a problem at the early stage of Unix, not now!
<br><br>I'm writing in KDE-quality because I think that package installing is the first problem in a Desktop environment.<br>A Desktop means that an average user can use a computer. This is the goal of KDE and its founder.
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