[CentOS] What about Mate Desktop on Centos 8?

Tue Sep 17 23:46:54 UTC 2019
H <agents at meddatainc.com>

On September 17, 2019 4:33:10 AM GMT-04:00, James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com> wrote:
>H wrote:
>> 
>> On September 16, 2019 8:06:41 PM GMT-04:00, Fred Smith
><fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 04:18:31PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>>>> According to Twitter:
>>>>
>>>> https://mobile.twitter.com/CentOSProject/status/1173652996305170432
>>>>
>>>> "The next version of #CentOS is being released September 24 and
>will
>>> be announced in all the usual places."
>>>>
>>>> I'm wondering about the status of the Mate Desktop.
>>>>
>>>> Looking under M here:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/epel/8/Everything/x86_64/Packages/m/
>>>>
>>>> I don't see anything about Mate.  Which leads me to ask, what's its
>>> status then?  I hope it hasn't died since that's what I use for all
>of
>>> my computers.
>>>
>>> For Centos 7, I use Mate from the epel repo. I assume it'll
>eventually
>>> appear there for C8 as well.
>> 
>> I hope we can get the latest version of Mate compiled for C 7.
>
>See the previous thread(s) on this list about newer versions of Mate
>for 
>el7:
>
>  https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-July/172916.html
>
>and:
>
>  https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-August/173150.html
>
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Yes, those are previous posts of mine. I was hoping we would get the latest version of Mate available on Centos 7.