[CentOS] What about Mate Desktop on Centos 8?

Fred Smith

fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Tue Sep 17 00:06:41 UTC 2019


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.

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