MATE desktop

MATE 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

F18 netinstall

chose MATE-desktop or cinnamon-desktop

Add to Existing Gnome or KDE Install:

root terminal

yum install @mate-desktop
yum install @cinnamon

Or:

yum groupinstall mate-desktop

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