[CentOS] What about Mate Desktop on Centos 8?

Tue Sep 17 04:14:50 UTC 2019
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 09:39:58PM -0400, 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.
> >
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> I hope we can get the latest version of Mate compiled for C 7.

yes, that'd be nice. but in the meantime the version we have is
at least a ton better than the default desktop, which I've never
figured out how to use beyond getting epel configured and Mate
installed.

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