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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.fuduntu.org/">Fuduntu</a> is a Linux distribution forked from Fedora that uses GNOME 2 by default, which provides rolling updates for the applications so you can always have the latest Firefox, Chromium, VLC, GIMP, LibreOffice and so on. </b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/fuduntu-2013-2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fuduntu 2013.2 screenshot" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqQ3xJpKmaT8jJaeWvb3lv2pXeu9LDQfyVnFcs4Gpez5IAKieQ9E-W37_Wv6klduqRQVeaDxED8v1uXxZMAdR4tPVjCAx7niU2k5AOjOeXtzVLwS0UhOhETs89oG0rKX3k5vQlJeaYXZWd/s320/fuduntu.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Fuduntu 2013.2, which has been <a href="http://www.fuduntu.org/blog/2013/04/08/fuduntu-2013-2-release/">released</a> today, includes a new lightweight version called Fuduntu Lite</b>, especially useful for netbooks but not only, which doesn't include applications such as GIMP, Thunderbird or LibreOffice by default and so it requires 3-4 GB less hard drive space, depending on architecture.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The new release also comes with <b>updated Mesa library</b> which allows users to <b>play more games</b>, including Half Life and Counter Strike: Source, <b>without installing proprietary drivers</b>.</div><br />Updated packages in the latest Fuduntu 2013.2 release include:<br /><ul><li>Linux Kernel 3.8.3-3;</li><li>LIbreOffice 4.0.1.2;</li><li>Chromium 25.0.1364.172;</li><li>Firefox 19.0.2;</li><li>Thunderbird 17.0.4;</li><li>GIMP 2.8.4/</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, <b>XBMC</b> Media Center has been added to the Fuduntu repositories.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Fuduntu 2013.2 release <a href="http://www.fuduntu.org/blog/2013/04/08/fuduntu-2013-2-release/">announcement</a> mentions that the team has grown and further more, <b>a Fuduntu KDE spin should be available in the future</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first thing you'll notice when you log in to Fuduntu is a GNOME 2 panel at the top with a classic-style menu and Cairo Dock at the bottom with some of the default applications: Chromium, VLC, Pidgin and LibreOffice, as well as a welcome screen that will help you get started with Fuduntu.  </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Other applications included by default in the main edition: Nautilus elementary, Dropbox, Thunderbird, Shotwell, GIMP, Shutter, Brasero, Cheese, Deja Dup, Gparted and around 15 games. You'll also be able to easily install popular software such as <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/how-to-use-netflix-in-ubuntu-through.html">Steam, Netflix</a> and so on, from the Fuduntu repositories.</div><br />Here are a few more Fuduntu screenshots:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/fuduntu2013-2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Fuduntu 2013.2" src="http://img.netupd8.com/fuduntu2013-2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/fuduntu2013-2_1.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Fuduntu 2013.2" src="http://img.netupd8.com/fuduntu2013-2_1_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/fuduntu2013-2_3.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Fuduntu 2013.2" src="http://img.netupd8.com/fuduntu2013-2_3_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><h2>Download Fuduntu</h2><br /><b>Fuduntu is available for 32bit and 64bit in two editions: Full and Lite:</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fuduntu.org/get.php">Download Fuduntu</a></div>

Fuduntu 2013.2 Available For Download, Includes New Lite Version

Fuduntu is a Linux distribution forked from Fedora that uses GNOME 2 by default, which provides rolling updates for the applications so you...

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMtGx4oKsLUr5tz5ORL1WpTphnX4Utog99DxAxHNFWNk1zclmfF6TgF5w2AfYwGm73AWy7uOfV2i7sx3kqYMA_roAkXo9tQ5b0e-GJT-u-ruQP-1-SVhmBE5RmGsIAQAlWc1aI4TmEfLX/s320/mate-desktop_1.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After 8 months of development, <a href="http://mate-desktop.org/">MATE</a> 1.6 has been <a href="http://mate-desktop.org/2013/04/02/mate-1-6-released/">released</a></b> yesterday and its Ubuntu and Debian repositories have been updated a few hours ago with the latest MATE desktop. <b>The new version comes with</b><b> many changes such as Systemd-logind support, Caja (file manager) improvements and more.</b><br /><br /><b>MATE 1.6</b> is "<b>a giant step forward from the 1.4 release</b>" according to the MATE developers and with this release, many deprecated packages and libraries have been replaced with new technologies available in GLib. <b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For those not familiar with MATE, this is a <b>GNOME2 fork</b> which lets you use the old GNOME 2 desktop interface and applications but it also allows you to use new applications so for instance, you can use Nautilus 3 with it and so on. Also, MATE can be installed in parallel with GNOME 3, something that wasn't possible with the vanilla GNOME 2. </div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><h2>Changes in MATE 1.6</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Caja</b>, the default MATE file manager has received some interesting improvements, including support for new thumbnailers specifications and a new thumbnails frame, a new connect server dialog backported from Nautilus 3, the sidebar has been improved and there were many bug fixes:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHKBF17ZqCChwECKVAKez3yvztv38P5iOTLAYsV41HKgFoxTuUCYyskKtEU5vwwhNntTcaVHVr3HeLUvK0QhIwY_hbtJR_e4vlUok6AAsnHPvzaY4Eizn-hy-Vi7lShWseShs7ktKbLP2W/s320/mate-desktop-1.6.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>MATE panel</b> Window List now supports middle clicking to close a window and the workspace switcher now has an option to wrap around between workspaces with the mouse wheel.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_5.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ7XyPpzq9I_6JmJRmJLzhtuZg7NLlY6nYsNDEcIltOELkjtFytRQxvir4PPfGNmm0_eORfSgPp4REm9Dp54AHcfXFkBCB2BSqrPnAcXfD93jMFsYgMqFsGh-UWt3ZM_hf67IYB67-l7F_/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_5.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MATE Control Center</b> has received some improvements too, including an <b>option to enable Marco compositing manager</b> and fast alt-tab window preferences and others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another interesting change has been made to the <b>Notification Daemon</b> which now has an <b>option which allows users to specify on which screen the notifications should be displayed</b> on and there's also support for notifications that "never expire".</div><br /><br /><b>Other improvements in MATE 1.6:</b><br /><ul><li>added support for systemd-logind in mate-session-manager, mate-screensaver and mate-power-manager (now you can reboot/shutdown without ConsoleKit);</li><li>MPRIS V2 support to send media keys to media players;</li><li>Caja now supports opening remote terminal;</li><li>other changes and bug fixes.</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguRgNUFOfVMXCHhA0oDKPl_B5Ezz1xSEB7qil1ZlnJj6B0BQP3S5kQ1f2LzJDIAb1qhUAYrKHk79Z_DXnT9vB-kTbgyH0CrWHmqh90_PxL5xdQ9lM7EVKKqmz52ls32oQsR7oQvIZasci9/s320/mate-desktop_3.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BlackMATE theme</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOV5a1xnIn9Li2_VXFQFsJIB81pSX_8wle_s0au0g7lq2GoBdKyBRlt7lnEhrshOAFRfLV796BG0IaFeopoZfb1vBrOXItTfCICvj0Kp98MzQVaDRJFyuwabjvQhYld2R2e0WJlGQpqswK/s320/mate-desktop_2.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GreenLaguna theme</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Furthermore, <b>MATE 1.6 ships with new GTK2/3 themes</b>: Menta (seen throughout most of the screenshot of this article), BlackMATE, GreenLaguna and Traditional Green and there's a <b>new icon theme</b> as well: Menta. Also, GTK3 support has been added to some of the existing themes: TraditionalOk, TraditionalOkTest and ContrastHigh. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With version 1.6, MATE has transitioned to some new packages: GSettings has replaced MateConf, DBus has replaced MateCorba/MateComponent, GIO/GVFS has replaced MateVFS and libnotify has replaced libmatenotify.</div><br /><br />Here are a few more MATE 1.6 Desktop screenshots:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7DiVDLkJ3I7hCdZ811mqjr1pin92ljPT0753dWlFjnqw5LhgWRSBR4tiI3ULvdcWln5MMaj34ZFIFx0ZABBCWfQHHbH7Zpi-Gne5HvyXADaV0-a33k3TYWLdm0xaCoegi7ZjVz7QCvw_l/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_2.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuj5wH5tQQbsVK3CuKohUEWzAzdwfhctOxJBjBJQ_OyfXFROTSR9Ksg_x5oRRsCOKvx54gTYw0efW8FFTd73X7d8cetSdkmbYBj0Ju_v7D3Dr6HUDqKCz27IC4ssIhZSIcEWIQym_Z0vsd/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_3.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_6.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv5-lcPjO7pkJa8oWd70zh1ARvIz6ik8DQXtvygTwZ3Hw6BxifvmepJx9-LD_7X-eX3iXZcPWMwWDYBzE7JdtQtlxak0pFB11jHdybMgKffdIFjh6FzJYmUQGtKRMEHHIlt0KYYg9QZsrz/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_6.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_7.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQXxE7McV6JANuEM78E70Oi8MBCR27P1hXaXMDSNgsrXGHqB2wXnXI-pNK1k59-mnwf9H3fDwcSfuterMSLUuE92eDDvL3J12nJp1taU0m8mKpzbGOd0QKqklmct-z1nGJUQzjq9zuf8e_/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_7.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_14.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLt5A28uD2At7Tg2MShuJqyg1Z1Qb6yIi4UjNvzNzFA9ZhCFUtSmoSDx-3BHJcbqMbcomkz8L6M2X2hFJYpkWOjVzTHkC9WI7NgypjGASVTsPhGUqJaT7G4XK5ljaNS_HiLbbq3kiQMQc/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_14.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install MATE Desktop in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>MATE is not currently available in the official Ubuntu / Debian repositories but it seems it will make it soon because it's currently on Debian ftp-master <a href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">new queue</a>.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 and 11.10 users can install MATE Desktop by using its official repositories. To add the repositories and install MATE, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mate-core mate-desktop-environment</code></pre>Then, log out and select MATE from the login screen.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: for some reason, in my test, the MATE Notification Daemon wasn't installed by default so if that's the case for you too, use the following command to install it:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install mate-notification-daemon</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I've also seen some Raring packages in the MATE repositories so it seems Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail will be supported soon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, see the MATE installation <a href="http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download">wiki page</a>.</b></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Removing MATE</h2><br />If you've installed MATE in Ubuntu using the commands above and you want to remove it, use the command below in a terminal:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove mate-archive-keyring mate-notification-daemon atril atril-common caja caja-common engrampa engrampa-common eom eom-common gir1.2-mate-panel libatril libcaja-extension libmarco libmatedesktop libmatekbd libmatekeyring libmatemenu libmatepanelapplet libmatepolkit libmateweather libmateweather-common libmatewnck libmatewnck-common marco marco-common mate-applets mate-applets-common mate-backgrounds mate-calc mate-control-center mate-core mate-desktop mate-desktop-common mate-desktop-environment mate-dialogs mate-icon-theme mate-media mate-media-common mate-media-gstreamer mate-menus mate-panel mate-panel-common mate-polkit mate-power-manager mate-power-manager-common mate-screensaver mate-screensaver-common mate-session-manager mate-settings-daemon mate-settings-daemon-common mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer mate-system-monitor mate-terminal mate-terminal-common mate-themes mate-utils mate-utils-common pluma pluma-common</code></pre><br />And to remove the MATE repositories, use:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre>

MATE 1.6 Released, Install It In Ubuntu [GNOME 2 Fork]

After 8 months of development, MATE 1.6 has been released yesterday and its Ubuntu and Debian repositories have been updated a few hours a...

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