Ubuntu-Based Exton|OS Linux Distribution Now Ships with MATE 1.14, VLC 2.2.3 | Linux Today

Ubuntu-Based Exton|OS Linux Distribution Now Ships with MATE 1.14, VLC 2.2.3

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Marius Nestor
May 14, 2016

At the request of the community, Arne Exton had to upgrade the MATE package to the latest stable branch, version 1.14.0, which, unfortunately, he had to build from the freely distributed sources because it looks like the MATE 1.14 desktop environment is not yet available in the main repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

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Marius Nestor

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