MATE desktop

Mate.png Desktop

 * Link to fedora-18 NOTE this is a Remix
 * Download livecd-MATE-Remix (by dan408): http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/livecd-fedora-livecd-mate-201212231405.iso
 * Mate 1.5.4 Livecd NEW 12/23/2012


 * NEW Now available in Fedora in netinstall only- DVD does not install working mate.--Satellit 13:32, 25 November 2012 (EST)
 * Nice Gnome2 alternate desktop


 * Features http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop
 * Originally developed for Linux Mint
 * http://linuxfreedom.com/linuxmint/stable/13/linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso
 * (#mate and #fedora-mate on freenode IRC )


 * Fedora Download: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Beta-RC1/

mate-desktop Wiki

 * http://wiki.mate-desktop.org
 * http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/building

F18 netinstall

 * chose MATE-desktop or cinnamon-desktop

yum install @mate-desktop yum install @cinnamon yum groupinstall mate-desktop
 * Add to Existing Gnome or KDE Install:
 * root terminal
 * Or:

Install MATE desktop for Fedora 16

 * MATE is a fork of GNOME 2
 * D/L: http://mate-desktop.org/install/#fedora
 * still in root terminal:

yum install http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/mate-desktop-fedora/releases/16/noarch/mate-desktop-release-16-5.fc16.noarch.rpm yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop
 * Logout sugar / login Mate
 * Nice GNOME 2 variant with sugar-emulator