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 A typical MATE desktop environment | |
| Developer(s) | Clement Lefebvre, Perberos, Stefano Karapetsas, et al.[1] |
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| Initial release | August 19, 2011;14 years ago (2011-08-19) |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C,C++,Python[3] |
| Operating system | Unix-like withX11 (X Window System) |
| Type | Desktop environment |
| License | GPLv2,LGPLv2 |
| Website | mate-desktop |
MATE is adesktop environment forLinux.[4] It is based on an older version of the desktop environmentGNOME, called GNOME 2.[5] Many people in the Linuxcommunity did not like the way GNOME 3 (or GNOME Shell) looked, and wanted GNOME 2. This called for someone tofork from part of an existingprogram) of GNOME based on GNOME 2. AnArch Linux user created MATE, it is named after a South American plant called Yerba Mate and the tea made from the plant, "mate."[6]
MATE comes with programs that are forked from GNOME's classic programs, and they have not changed much from when they were in GNOME. Some of them were made from scratch, not based on a GNOME program. The forked programs were named in Spanish, like MATE itself.
