The History of the MATE Desktop

This is the story of the MATE Desktop from the initial GNOME fork in 2011 on to the most recent release, 1.28, in February of 2024! 🤝Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace 🧑‍🏫The History of MATE The first MATE org blogpost https://mate-desktop.org/blog/2011-12-05-introducing-mate-desktop/ The initial Arch Linux forum post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162&p=1 Perberos described the fork as... https://youtu.be/iwQ7iqNwRKs?t=64 Phoronix August 2011 https://www.phoronix.com/news/OTgxMA ingeek 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20140214105804/http://ingeek.com/a-gnome-2-fork-the-mate-desktop-environment Perberos attempted to grow the community on the Ubuntu forums and Linux Mint forums https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11333073 https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=86481 Perberos, Clement Lefebvre, Stefano Karapetsas, and Steve Zesch were the founders. https://web.archive.org/web/20120122102625/http://mate-desktop.org:80/team/ The initial mi