Fedora 18 Mate Desktop Spin

25th Mar 2013 all posts featured fedora linux tutorial

A lot of people were asking for Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow) with Mate Desktop Environment pre-installed cd-image. The cd-image comes pre-installed with MATE desktop 1.5.5 version. What is MATE? MATE (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmate]) is a desktop environment forked from the now-unmaintained code base of GNOME 2. The name derives from yerba mate, a species of holly native to subtropical South America used to prepare a beverage called mate.The renaming is necessary to avoid conflicts with GNOME 3 components. Several GNOME applications have been forked and renamed: Application :

Caja – File manager (from Nautilus)
Pluma – Text editor (from Gedit)
Eye of MATE – Image viewer (from Eye of GNOME)
Atril – Document Viewer (from Evince)
Engrampa – Compression tool (from File Roller)
MATE Terminal – Terminal emulator (from GNOME Terminal)
Marco – Window manager (from Metacity

The cd-image is only available in x86_64/amd64. If you want to install Mate Desktop Environment on 32-Bit/i386 system. enter the command given below in Terminal:

su

yum install @mate-desktop

Application :

Caja – File manager (from Nautilus)
Pluma – Text editor (from Gedit)
Eye of MATE – Image viewer (from Eye of GNOME)
Atril – Document Viewer (from Evince)
Engrampa – Compression tool (from File Roller)
MATE Terminal – Terminal emulator (from GNOME Terminal)
Marco – Window manager (from Metacity

Download (only direct download is available): Fedora Mate Compiz alternative link Fedora Mate Compiz You can visit the project homepage: Project homepage If you have any question leave a comment below Enjoy!!!