Fedora/MATE desktop

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Mate.pngMATE Desktop

  • updated Jan 30 2013

Gnome3 with mate running in VB.png

(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 18 Netinstall installs mate 1.5.5
  • MATE is only Available in Fedora netinstall - DVD does not contain mate.
Nice GNOME 2 alternate 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://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-18-i386-netinst.iso
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso

Mate-live-CD

  • Mate 1.5.5 Livecd (x86_64)
  • Download
http://bitchx.ca/Image-FedoraMateCompiz.iso (by dan408)
Duplicate: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Image-FedoraMateCompiz.iso Mate 1.5.5 Livecd (by dan408)
Submitted to Fedora spins sig

mate-desktop Wiki

Upcoming releases

"This is a list of new features planned for the upcoming MATE Desktop 1.6 release."

Forum

Fedora 18 netinstall

http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso
chose MATE-desktop or cinnamon-desktop
  • Add to Existing GNOME or KDE Install:
root terminal
yum install @mate-desktop
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop