Isn't Pardus in jeopardy? I understand it is limbo due to restructuring
problems.

Can you add some source details as to where you obtained this information, for I
have never come across any articles on Pardus restructuring.

I first heard it on the Distrowatch podcast about a month ago. Here is a
link to their text version:
distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120102#news it is midway down. I
think that it was recently discussed on Linux Outlaws podcast, too, but I
listen to so many that I may be wrong about which podcast it was.

I also found this a week or so ago.
www.pardusworld.com/recent-news-about-pardus/

Pardus 2011 is very stable OS, but there seems to be a new change in the
works, one will have to wait to see the out come.

However I did find a different KDE desktop OS, named Chakra the website is
http://chakra-linux.org/
This KDE OS, is very interesting indeed.

I have not tried it. Let us know how it works out.