Fedora/MATE desktop

MATE Desktop

• updated Jan 30 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 18 Netinstall installs mate 1.5.5
• MATE is only Available in Fedora netinstall - DVD does not contain mate.

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://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

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MATE_%2B_Compiz_Spin?rd=MATE_+_compiz_Spin

mate-desktop Wiki

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

Upcoming releases

• http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/roadmap
• http://blog.karapetsas.com/

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

Forum

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

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