On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 15:41, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote: > > Without wanting to sound too pushy, I'm wondering if there is any update on the status of Mate now that Centos 8 has been released? > > I would love to jump on C8 and start playing with it, but the lack of Mate is kind of a showstopper for me at the moment. > Nothing has changed since the September 16 answer I gave: This is more of a question for the EPEL lists versus here. The current status is that desktops are harder to package up in EL8 and only a less feature version is available at the moment. At the moment the only one I know of is KDE is half implemented in EPEL Playground and will be reimplemented as a module when EPEL gains the ability to do modules. At that point interested people can also do the work to make Mate/Cinnamon/etc available. -- Stephen J Smoogen.