On Tue, 24 Sep, 2019 at 18:08:08 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 02:48:57PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:27:07 +0100 > > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > > > If the availability of a particular desktop environment is a > > > showstopper, then perhaps RHEL and CentOS are not the best choice for > > > you. > > > > That may be, but in view of the fact that you can even get a version of CDE that works (very well) on Centos 7 (https://github.com/dcantrell/cderpm if you're interested), I find it difficult to believe that a widely used and mature desktop like Mate will just disappear on a widely used and mature Linux distribution like Centos. > > > > And since I've been using Centos for everything for a lot of years I'm not in a hurry to change to something else if I can avoid it. > > > > Amen! Hear, Hear! > Yeah. If you could transform your religious fervour into code, that would be great.