KDE is known as K Desktop Environment, it is one of the popular desktop environments running on Unix and Linux. Finally at last the long awaited stable KDE, they have announced their gold version 4.0 ready for the public.

KDE 4 not only bring in a cool series of technology like Decibel, Phonon, Solid, they also have new desktop shell called Plasma, new graphical user interface - Oxygen. Besides that, there are entire new series of applications such as Dolphin, Okular, Marble and etc.

There are already some Linux distros included the latest KDE 4.0 such as Kubuntu, Mandriva, Debian, KDE Four Live and so on.

Most of the people get the wrong idea of linux as I used to be. Linux is just the linux kernel. For Windows guys, it is like just like DOS, it is just a terminal, a console. On top of the linux kernel, there is X Windows System. Then on top of it is windows desktop, Gnome and KDE are the famous windows manager we nowadays heard using on most of the distro.

For a novice user, you would not like to want mess around the kernel stuff, you just want the beautiful interface. So, many linux distros come out to save your painful experience on installing linux yourself.

According to DistroWatch, there are more than 369 distro actively maintained by the community. The top 10 major distributions:

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