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MATE To Make It Into Debian Repositories

Posted by timothy on from the best-news-of-the-day-so-far dept.

sfcrazy writes "Fans of the MATE desktop environment, which is a fork of Gnome 2, will be happy to know that MATE is scheduled to be included in the official Debian repositories. Early 2012, it was requested that MATE be included in said repositories, and almost 2 years later, it appears we're almost there."

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  1. Re:Debian?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The backlash started when they changed the wallpaper to a smear of orange, purple, and pink. Fact is, people loved the doo-doo brown wallpaper. It made the users say to themselves, "Yes! This is truly an operating system built for niggers." Once they moved away from that, most the excitement for the distro died.