This (Cinnamon) is different than MATE, another GNOME fork that Mint was involved in. As far as I can tell, MATE extends GNOME 2 and Cinammon plans to build an

This (Cinnamon) is different than MATE, another GNOME fork that Mint was involved in. As far as I can tell, MATE extends GNOME 2 and Cinammon plans to build an alternative GNOME 3 shell. http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=205&t=89411 http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=205&t=89411 https://github.com/Perberos/Mate-Desktop-Environment https://github.com/Perberos/Mate-Desktop-Environment