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Mate Desktop maybe coming to 14.04


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Roland Taylor
published Jan. 10, 2014, 5:32 p.m.


Ever since Gnome Shell and Unity became the main available faces of the Gnome desktop environment, lovers of the old way of doing things have felt out to sea. Mate changed that, and now, to the joy of many, it may give joy to many on Ubuntu 14.04.

Mate is beginning to make its way into the "proposed" repository, which is an almost sure sign that it will be available on Ubuntu starting with 14.04. This should help to ease some of the issues surrounding Ubuntu in recent times as many have been dissatisfied with the options they have.