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Fedora Linux Replaces GNOME With MATE As The Default Desktop Environment

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Jul 31, 2012

In what could be called as a major blow to the GNOME foundation, The Fedora Linux team has decided to get rid of GNOME 2 in the upcoming Fedora 18 linux OS. GNOME 2 will be replaced by a new Desktop Environment (DE) called the MATE. However, users need not worry much about this new Desktop Environment – MATE as it happens to be a fork of the original GNOME project.

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