Live CD: Una manera de triar la vostra distribució
Un Live CD us permet provar l'última versió estable de KDE SC sense necessitat d'instal·lar Linux ni de canviar la vostra instal·lació existent. Aquestes distribucions s'executen completament des del CD i no modifiquen els discs durs. Per tant es poden provar en un ordinador amb Windows sense cap risc. Tots els CD mostrats a continuació són de descàrrega gratuïta.
Mandriva One
L'edició One de Mandriva Linux és un Live CD.
Kubuntu LiveCD
Una versió Live CD de Kubuntu Linux, el germà d'Ubuntu que utilitza l'escriptori Plasma KDE.
Fedora
A fast paced distro targeting users who want the latest and greatest available in the world of FOSS. Fedora KDE usually has the latest stable version of KDE in the repositories, and beta versions are usually shipped via supported extra repositories.
Mepis
Based on Debian, Kudzu by Red Hat. The disk also offers installation to hard drive.
Morphix KDE
Based on Knoppix. Special versions such as LiveKiosk and Asterix PBX are available.
PCLinuxOS
Based on Mandrake (now known as Mandriva).
Slax - Live CD
Based on Slackware. 8cm CD-R. With modular structure and pseudo read-write CD filesystem.
OpenSUSE Live-CD
It allows to try OpenSUSE with KDE SC and install it to hard drive.
Aptosid - successor to Sidux
Aptosid is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, Debian's branch (called "Sid") and many free and open source applications.
Pardus Live
Pardus is a KDE based Linux distro which offers one of the best KDE integration. You can tryout Pardus Live without installation.
New Live CDs and DVDs are becoming available all the time. If you've heard of a distro and think you'd like to try it, do an Internet search for it. You may well find that a Live CD is available.