MATE desktop

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Mate.png Mate 1.2 installed in SoaS v6

Install SoaS v6 live to hard disk

download: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/linux/releases/16/Spins/i686/Fedora-16-i686-Live-SoaS.iso
  • Boot Fedora-16-i686-Live-SoaS
su
password
liveinst in root terminal
  • Boot installed Soas
firstboot - set user name etc
choose sugar name and colors
  • Start Root terminal

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