MATE desktop

MATE 1.2

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