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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 Hatta · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ubuntu is hardly a successor to Debian. It's more of a hanger on. Debian will be around long after Canonical goes bankrupt.

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  2. Re:A problem by jedidiah · · Score: 4, Interesting

    > A problem with Linux in general is there is simply too much choice and no apparent standardization.

    Yet the thing you are screeching about right now is the very essence of "consistency" in terms of the principle that "computer interfaces should be consistent". This project is a response to others running off the rails and trying to follow the latest trend no matter how absurd it is.

    MATE is what truly conforms to formal academic notions of proper UI design. So do the standard Unix shells.

    MATE will be less of a shock to people used to the last 15 years of Windows interfaces. It will be less confusing than the flavor of the month from Ubuntu, Microsoft, or Apple.

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