I love using kdenlive - when it works! ;-)

Can anyone suggest a distribution that gives reliable results for kdenlive?

Currently I found Karmic and 0.7.6 impossible
Jaunty and 0.7.6 great for 30 mins or so (till I dare to use the SPACER tool)

I am prepared to dedicate a partition and a Distro specifically for kdenlive, then Karmic for all other work.

Any suggestions please?

Consider using openSuse: http://www.opensuse.org.

Current version 11.2 works fine for me, even after upgrading from 11.1
Mean time between failures is acceptable and you can use the spacer tool - at least I can. ;-)
You will find (almost) any additional package in the opensuse repos and at http://packman.links2linux.com/

I wouldn't say that kdenlive performance dependents of the distro. I´m using Karmic and I don't have a problem with it. I thing is more a hardware problem. I had two problems with that. I´ll post them later when I found the two problems I solved.

I'm running Kdenlive from the Builder Wizard on Karmic and it's been pretty stable sofar. I would definitely recommend the OpenSUSE packman installation. It's easy, usually kept pretty much up to date and worked great for me in the past.

I don't know if problems with the spacer tool go away with changing distro's, though.

Thanks people, I am downloading Open Suse, will report back ;-)

Wow!

For whatever reasons (Hardware/software etc.) kdenlive is a breeze in OpenSuse 11.2.

No jitters, no sudden spacing out of clips over the timeline and JVC "MOD" files are displayed in the correct 16:9 format.

I may have to distro-hop to Suse and start on that NZ holiday footage from last year.

If you are having a 2nd rate kdenlive experience - try it in Open Suse 11.2

I just started using Suse 11.2 this week and I must say the experience so far has been good.

I have Opensuse 11.2 in my laptop and I'm very happy whit Kdenlive. I tried Kdenlive before whith Ubuntu 9.10 and didn't work right. I had Pinnacle under windows and I wanted a linux video editor, because I only used Windows for video editing. I looked for a distro whith KDE for installing Kdenlive. I tried Fedora too, and, at the end, I have my Suse and I'm very happy because I have 100% linux in my laptop, I have a good video editor and my sistem work very good.

Thanks to Kdenlive and Opensuse.

I'm spanish and Kdenlive is translated to spanish correctly.

Hands-down for:

1./ -> UbuntuStudio (it's very powerful, and being based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian, it's got everything, as long as you got the hardware) -and this is the "easy" way if you're not linux savvy.

And/Or,

2./ -> ARCHLinux/ARCHBang : this one is very close to my BSD/Unix heart, they are blazingly fast, and if you don't mind learning Linux/Unix all over again, the RIGHT way!, then I highly recommend ArchLinux/ArchBang to start again.

And/Or,

3./ -> Kubuntu : make sure it's 10.10 or better yet, 11.04, Kubuntu is much better than it used to be, and of course it is KDE, just like KDEnlive :)