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Fedora 18 to feature the GNOME2 fork MATE

52 points by Suraj-Sun 14y ago

RobAley 14y ago
"It is one of the 2 choices of DE's for Linux Mint which is one of the most popular Linux distros out right now." Thats not quite true, Mint was one of the most (independently & newly) downloaded distros on several distro watch lists in recent months. If you consider most popular to mean largest install/use base, then it isn't.
- pavanky 14y ago
  > one of the most popular Linux distros out right now stop nitpicking please.
  - Symmetry 14y ago
    Not really. It's the top in pageviews at Distrowatch, but there really isn't any reason to think its popular outside that community. I know that among the people I interact with, 20+ run Ubuntu, 3 run Debian, 1 runs Slackware, 1 runs Gentoo, 1 runs NetBSD, and none run Mint.
  - RobAley 14y ago
    I wasn't nitpicking. I wasn't just saying mint wasn't THE most popular, I was actively saying that it wasn't even ONE of the most popular (by the definition I gave). And even if that still seems picky, packages make or break a distro, so being picky over what criteria you use to choose them isn't such a bad thing.
rwmj 14y ago
Cinnamon has just made it into Fedora as well. For those not following, Cinnamon is a "traditional" (ie. GNOME 2- / Windows 95- / NextStep-like) desktop based on GNOME 3's and Gtk3's underlying technologies.
- adamtaylor 14y ago
  Could you provide a link like the one for MATE in Fedora?
  - ciupicri 14y ago
    I couldn't find a feature page, but here's the packaging review request for Cinnamon: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771252 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771252 P.S. Comment 146 mentions it as a possible feature.
    - adamtaylor 14y ago
      That comment thread, esp. comment 148, seems to imply that Cinnamon will _not_ be part of Fedora 18. At least as I read it.
  - steelhive 14y ago
    http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/
    - adamtaylor 14y ago
      I meant a link saying that Cinnamon will be included in Fedora 18.
      - rwmj 14y ago
        Cinnamon has been added to Fedora, see: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/cinnamon https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/cinnamon
mgurlitz 14y ago
I don't know if "feature" is the right word when all this means is you can choose to install it. GNOME3 is still the default DE (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/FeatureList http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/FeatureList)
ivarkotnik 14y ago
This is great! I like more too choose from! Currently XFCE is my desktop environment of choice, but if Mate is adaptable to my needs I might switch.
Nux 14y ago
Good news!
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giis 14y ago
thats a good news for long time fedora users. I'm using Fedora since FC-2. After Gnome-3,my machine became unusable. I don't want to switch to ubuntu :P Last month I filed a bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834266 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834266 for it too. Glad to hear this change.

52 points by Suraj-Sun 14y ago

"It is one of the 2 choices of DE's for Linux Mint which is one of the most popular Linux distros out right now." Thats not quite true, Mint was one of the most (independently & newly) downloaded distros on several distro watch lists in recent months. If you consider most popular to mean largest install/use base, then it isn't.

pavanky 14y ago
> one of the most popular Linux distros out right now stop nitpicking please.
- Symmetry 14y ago
  Not really. It's the top in pageviews at Distrowatch, but there really isn't any reason to think its popular outside that community. I know that among the people I interact with, 20+ run Ubuntu, 3 run Debian, 1 runs Slackware, 1 runs Gentoo, 1 runs NetBSD, and none run Mint.
- RobAley 14y ago
  I wasn't nitpicking. I wasn't just saying mint wasn't THE most popular, I was actively saying that it wasn't even ONE of the most popular (by the definition I gave). And even if that still seems picky, packages make or break a distro, so being picky over what criteria you use to choose them isn't such a bad thing.

rwmj 14y ago

Cinnamon has just made it into Fedora as well. For those not following, Cinnamon is a "traditional" (ie. GNOME 2- / Windows 95- / NextStep-like) desktop based on GNOME 3's and Gtk3's underlying technologies.

adamtaylor 14y ago
Could you provide a link like the one for MATE in Fedora?
- ciupicri 14y ago
  I couldn't find a feature page, but here's the packaging review request for Cinnamon: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771252 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771252 P.S. Comment 146 mentions it as a possible feature.
  - adamtaylor 14y ago
    That comment thread, esp. comment 148, seems to imply that Cinnamon will _not_ be part of Fedora 18. At least as I read it.
- steelhive 14y ago
  http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/
  - adamtaylor 14y ago
    I meant a link saying that Cinnamon will be included in Fedora 18.
    - rwmj 14y ago
      Cinnamon has been added to Fedora, see: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/cinnamon https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/cinnamon

mgurlitz 14y ago

I don't know if "feature" is the right word when all this means is you can choose to install it. GNOME3 is still the default DE (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/FeatureList http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/FeatureList)

ivarkotnik 14y ago

This is great! I like more too choose from! Currently XFCE is my desktop environment of choice, but if Mate is adaptable to my needs I might switch.

Nux 14y ago

Good news!

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giis 14y ago

thats a good news for long time fedora users. I'm using Fedora since FC-2. After Gnome-3,my machine became unusable. I don't want to switch to ubuntu :P Last month I filed a bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834266 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834266 for it too. Glad to hear this change.