[CentOS] What about Mate Desktop on Centos 8?

[James Pearson]

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

James Pearson