Fedora Adds MATE and Cinnamon Desktops to Main Repository, Releases Beta 56
Already available in third party repositories, the GNOME 2 fork MATE and GNOME 3 fork Cinnamon will now be included in Fedora 18. From the H: "After almost two months' delay, the Fedora Project has released the first and final beta of Fedora 18. The distribution, which is code-named 'Spherical Cow,' includes the MATE desktop – a continuation of the classic GNOME 2 interface – in its repositories for the first time. Fedora 18's default edition uses GNOME 3.6.2 as its interface and a separate KDE Spin provides the KDE Software Collection 4.9.3; Xfce 4.10 and version 1.6.7 of Linux Mint's Cinnamon are also available from the distribution's repositories."
can't wait (Score:0, Informative)
F17 was the best distro to use on my lap. I'll upgrade when F18 stable lands
openSUSE (Score:3, Informative)
Fedora is late, as usual, due to its lack of manpower. Compare with the amount of desktop environments supported in openSUSE:
* Afterstep http://software.opensuse.org/package/afterstep [opensuse.org]
* cinnamon http://software.opensuse.org/package/cinnamon [opensuse.org]
* GNOME 2 and 3: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME_repositories [opensuse.org]
* KDE 3 and 4: http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories [opensuse.org] http://en.opensuse.org/KDE3 [opensuse.org]
* LXDE http://en.opensuse.org/LXDE_repositories [opensuse.org]
* MATE http://en.opensuse.org/MATE [opensuse.org]
* Qt Desktop http://software.opensuse.org/package/razorqt [opensuse.org]
* sugar http://software.opensuse.org/package/sugar [opensuse.org]
* xfce http://software.opensuse.org/package/patterns-openSUSE-xfce [opensuse.org]
Lots of window managers, too: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/windowmanagers/openSUSE_12.2 [opensuse.org]
Re:Will MATE make it into RHEL? (Score:4, Informative)
Yes, that could well be the case too, since they don't include Xfce as it is. Of course the savvy user knows that he just needs to enable the EPEL repo to get Xfce.