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Fedora 18 to feature the GNOME2 fork MATE

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52 pointsSuraj-Sun15 comments

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)

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.

Could you provide a link like the one for MATE in Fedora?

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

P.S. Comment 146 mentions it as a possible feature.

That comment thread, esp. comment 148, seems to imply that Cinnamon will _not_ be part of Fedora 18. At least as I read it.

http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/

I meant a link saying that Cinnamon will be included in Fedora 18.

Cinnamon has been added to Fedora, see: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/cinnamon

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.

"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.

> one of the most popular Linux distros out right now

stop nitpicking please.

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.

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.

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 for it too. Glad to hear this change.

Good news!

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