On 24/09/2019 21:55, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.centos.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fcentos&data=02%7C01%7Ch.toms%40qmul.ac.uk%7Cb1eb2e3f4b5344b873d808d74131a14f%7C569df091b01340e386eebd9cb9e25814%7C0%7C0%7C637049553727380141&sdata=Rtr1GSd2ut%2BFLDHayci6bTnMHcu5IwZ5VGbf%2BGqkLDI%3D&reserved=0 FWIW icewm (uses an XWayland session) is available in EPEL-testing for CentOS 8. I've tried it out and it seems very stable, I've had no issues with it. -- regards H