At present I'm using Mepis8 64 bit version. Right now I'm stuck with kdenlive 7.3. So I tried the USB version of debian downloaded from this site. It worked great for a while until my kdenlive home directory filled up and the files in refuse to be deleted. I'm sure if I dig around a bit we could fix that but, I was happy enough with the performance of the new kdenlive so I am considering switching my installed OS to something that will support the latest kdenlive. My issue with the one provided is that I much prefer KDE to Gnome.

1. Are there any recommendations for a KDE friendly distro that kdenlive works well with?

2. Whats up with my inability to delete files from my recycle bin in my USB version?

I believe various users on this forum will be able to recommend their distribution of choice, providing guidance as to how kdenlive works well with its KDE implementation.

In my case, I am an openSUSE Linux user and so I will only mention that. That is NOT to say other distributions are also not good.

There is a version of KDEnlive packaged for openSUSE by the Packman packagers that works well on openSUSE( http://packman.links2linux.org/package/kde4-kdenlive ) . I have KDEnlive-0.7.6 running on 6 PCs (4 with openSUSE-11.2 and 2 with openSUSE-11.1) all with KDE-4.3.4.

There is guidance here for installing the latest openSUSE-11.2:
* http://forums.opensuse.org/new-user-how-faq-read-only/424611-new-users-opensuse-pre-install-general-please-read.html
* http://forums.opensuse.org/new-user-how-faq-read-only/424615-new-users-suse-11-2-pre-installation-please-read.html

One can readup and then find out where download liveCDs for trial of openSUSE Linux from here: http://en.opensuse.org/Live_CD

openSUSE-11.1 comes with KDE-4.1.3, but with guidance from the openSUSE forum that can be upgraded to KDE-4.3.4 (I recommend installing 11.1 direct to KDE-4.3.2 from this CD: http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live/ ) .

openSUSE-11.2 comes with KDE-4.3.1, but with guidance from the openSUSE forum that can be upgraded to KDE-4.3.4. Having typed that, in the very near future SuSE-GmbH plan the unprecidented (for openSUSE) mid version KDE update from KDE-4.3.1 to KDE-4.3.4. So one can just wait.

Once openSUSE is installed, I recommend users setup only 4 software repositories, ... the "official" OSS, Non_OSS and Update, and the 3rd party Packman.

Once those 4 repositories (and only those 4 repositories, no others) are setup (and in the above Links are guidance on that setup) then one can use either the GUI YaST Software management, or the command line zypper software management, to install kde4-kdenlive.

Currently MLT is only at 0.4.6 on Packman ... I'm waiting for a response on this www.kdenlive.org forum before I ask the packman packagers to update to MLT 0.4.8.

If you join http://forums.opensuse.org/ you will get lots of support and help on these details from myself and others.

Thanks for taking the time to give such a complete reply. I have used SuSe in the past and I was very happy with it. Thanks for reminding me about it. I had gotten away from RPM based distros, maybe it's time to try them out again.

Well, i'm up and running with SUSE 11.2. With the help of your links and you one click method for installing all the codecs everything seems to work. I even figured out how to install Kino and get the Raw 1394 kernel module to work for dvgrab. Looks good so far. Thanks again for your help.