Fedora/MATE desktop

MATE Desktop

• updated Dec 18 2013

(mate 1.5.5 running in VirtualBox on Fedora 18 GNOME 3 Desktop)

• Installed in GNOME 3 root terminal with

yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop 

Click on link ^ for terminal output of update

Note use of CAPS in command

• Fedora 20 Netinstall installs mate 1.6.1

Nice GNOME 2 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://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-20-x86_64-netinst.iso

http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all

Mate-live-CD

http://spins.fedoraproject.org/mate-compiz/#downloads

mate-desktop Wiki

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

Mate 1.8.0 Demo Live CD

• http://mate-desktop.org/blog/2014-01-30-mate-desktop-live-cd/

Forum

• Forum: http://forums.mate-desktop.org/

Fedora 20 netinstall

Download Net installer: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-20-x86_64-netinst.iso :Select MATE

Add Sugar to MATE Desktop

yum groupinstall sugar-desktop sugar-runner
yum install sugar-runner @sugar-desktop

chose MATE or sugar on login

• Add to Existing Desktop Environment:

root terminal

yum install @mate-desktop
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop