A few days ago version 1.8 of MATE, a fork of GNOME 2.x that offers users one of the more traditional desktop environments.
MATE 1.8 has cambios important in the file manager, the window manager, the dashboard, the Control Center, various applets and some other applications. In addition, improvements have been made to the base code of the environment, numerous bugs have been corrected and the translations in which the software is distributed have been improved.
Although MATE 1.8 is not yet available in its official repository - there is still only version 1.6 -, when it is, it can be easily installed in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and probably Ubuntu 14.04. All you have to do is add this repository to our software sources; for this purpose we open a comfort and we execute:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mate.list
In the document that opens, within the same terminal, we copy the following repository to Ubuntu 13.10:
deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu saucy main
For Ubuntu 12.04 instead we use this other:
deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu precise main
Later we refresh the local information:
sudo apt-get update
We import the public key:
sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install mate-archive-keyring
And finally we install MATE:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mate-core mate-desktop-environment
Once this is done, to log in to MATE we will simply have to choose MATE as the desktop environment on the login screen.
These instructions could come in handy for the next version of Ubuntu, I have tried several times with UNITY and I am not able ...
the steps to install Cinnamon would be very different
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mate-core: Depends: mate-control-center (> = 1.6.0) but it won't install
Depends: mate-session-manager (> = 1.6.0) but it won't install
It depends: mate-panel (> = 1.6.0) but it will not install
Depends: mate-settings-daemon (> = 1.6.0) but it won't install
Depends: mate-terminal (> = 1.6.0) but it won't install
mate-desktop-environment: Depends: lectern (> = 1.6.0) but will not install
Depends: mate-screensaver (> = 1.6.0) but it won't install
Depends: mate-applets (> = 1.6.0) but it won't install
Unfortunately Linux is that easy. What in other systems is achieved in a plis here doing the easy complicated .. Always the same story or missing libraries or incomplete ..
The day it is easy to install and everything works the first time without having to reinstall or go looking for an "orphan dependency" that day it will be on all computers ...
I think this year will not be the "LINUX YEAR" obviously with the end of windows xp support, the Linux community saw an opportunity, I think it is a chimera ... ... Windows 8 works very well ... the virus is not as dramatic as in the past …… yes and that is what I write this post with, because when trying to apply Mate to my desktop ..peto… ..I'm old enough to be adjusting all day ..I would be laziness, pasotism …… If you have time to deal with it use Linux …….
I think you're right Ramón. 10 years ago I believed that a solid model would be reached in a short time in Linux. The years passed, some distributions got worse and worse was not to believe, first it was SUSE, then Mandriva, then Ubuntu. I think that free software wakes up from its dream of «eternal adolescent», always trying, always in the way of…. Otherwise you will have to accept that it is a draft of other operating systems, Apple for example.
How bad has a post that I read done and I think I was not the only one, I am also older, I use the distro that I want and if I experience the risks I can take, but at least the computer turns on and off when I send it.