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MATE desktop Live CD

Martin Wimpress — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:17:32 GMT

The MATE team have made a Live CD that boots into a full MATE desktop.

Update The LiveCD was updated to MATE 1.8 on March 10th 2014.

This Live CD was created so that potential new users can evaluate the MATE desktop in a non-destructive fashion. The image can be burned to a DVD, mounted as an ISO file, or be directly written to a USB stick using a utility like dd. Linux Luddites beware, unetbootin is not supported. You can download it below:

BitTorrent download (recommended)

If you can spare the bytes, please leave the client open after your download is finished, so you can seed it back to others. A web-seed capable client is recommended for fastest download speeds.

[matelivecd-14.069.1449.iso.torrent]

HTTP direct download

In addition to the BitTorrent link above, the Live CD .iso can also be downloaded via HTTP. Please ensure the downloaded file matches the SHA1 checksum.

[matelivecd-14.069.1449.iso] [ ~964MB ]
- SHA1: 12b529d17d1ecef39d9b0e1122fb5271e0534c0a

Compatibility

The Live CD is built using Arch Linux and MATE 1.8. The Live CD is 32-bit so should work on any i686 or x86_64 computer with at least 512MB RAM. Xorg drivers are included for Intel (i915), AMD/ATI (radeon) and nvidia (nouveau) with a fall back to VESA. Drivers for Virtual Box and VMware are also included so that evaluation using these virtualization solutions is simple.

All common file systems, including ZFS, are supported and some data recovery and backup tools are included. If you plug in your mobile device it will most likely be recognised and you'll be able to access the data on it. NetworkManager is included along with all the VPN clients it supports.

Usernames and passwords

The MATE Desktop Live CD has the following accounts configured.

root - password is livecd.
mate - password is livecd.

The root account is obviously root. The mate account it a regular user that has with full password-less sudo rights. The Live CD will auto-login using the mate account.

Applications

The Live CD is primarily designed to showcase the MATE desktop, however we've included some additional applications that are not part of the MATE desktop in order to make the LiveCD a little more useful and enjoyable.

Firefox - Standalone web browser from mozilla.org
GParted - A Partition Magic clone, frontend to GNU Parted
HardInfo - A system information and benchmark tool
HexChat - IRC client configured to auto-connect to #mate@libera
Onboard - Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
Orca - On-screen keyboard useful for mobility impaired individuals
Pidgin - Multi-protocol instant messaging client
Xnoise - Media player with a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features

Creative Commons content

We have bundled the following Creative Commons licensed content.

Think Python - To read with Atril

Changing language

Be default the Live CD is configured to use the en_US locale but if you want to activate another language here is how to do it. In the example below, we will enable Italian.

Edit /etc/locale.gen an uncomment your locale, in this case it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8 and rebuild the locales.

sudo locale-gen

Edit /etc/locale.conf and change the LANG= to reflect your locale, in this case LANG=it_IT.UTF-8. Finally restart the display manager and you will be logged back into a MATE session using your prefered language.

sudo systemctl restart lightdm

Linux Action Show Feature

The MATE Desktop LiveCD and MATE itself we featured on the Linux Action Show in the CuBox Linux Review episode. Two clips are embedded below, the first a quick look at the MATE Desktop LiveCD the second is a review of the CuBox i4 which is running MATE.

MATE Desktop LiveCD

CuBox i4 Pro Review

Feedback

We hope you give the Live CD a test drive and enjoy the speed and simplicity the MATE Desktop provides. Once you've taken the MATE Desktop Live CD for a spin let us know what you think in the comments or use the Live CD to join us in the #mate IRC channel.

MATE is officially available in Arch Linux

Martin Wimpress — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:22:22 GMT

MATE has finally found it's way home.

As some of you may know MATE was created by an Arch Linux user, Perberos. It is somewhat ironic then that MATE has never featured in the official Arch Linux package repository until now. That's right, MATE is finally available in the Arch Linux [community] package repository!

You can find out everything you need to know about installing MATE on Arch Linux from the following wiki pages:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MATE

It is also worth noting that the now obsolete unofficial MATE package repository will be removed once all the Arch Linux mirrors are synced. So go and update /etc/pacman.conf and remove the [mate] package repository.

The other advantage of getting MATE into the official Arch Linux package repository is that MATE will now also feature in the Arch Linux ARM package repository. I can finally retire my Raspberry Pi (armv6h) and Cubox Pro (armv7h) build "servers". I'm not sure how long it will take for all the MATE packages to appear in the Arch Linux ARM package repository but I have already seen that some packages are built.

MATE runs really well on the Raspberry Pi Model B with 512MB RAM, so if you have a Pi and a spare SDCARD, give it a whirl. I'll be writing a blog post about how install Arch Linux and MATE on the Raspberry Pi with some useful performance tweaks in the near future.

MATE 1.6 packages for Arch Linux

Martin Wimpress — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:36:43 GMT

MATE 1.6 packages have been available for Arch Linux for a good while now. So why the blog post?

Over the last few months the MATE 1.6 packages for Arch Linux have been fixed, cleaned up and enhanced. Here is an overview of what we've been working on:

All Arch Linux specific bugs have been fixed.
New automated build scripts and build cluster.
Full support for the following platforms:
- armv6h (Raspberry Pi)
- armv7h
- i686
- x86_64
Packaged 9 additional applications/applets contributed by the MATE community.
Choice of Pulse Audio or GStreamer backends.
Cherry picked some systemd and logind features from MATE 1.7.
Cherry picked some upower features from MATE 1.7.
Cherry picked miscellaneous bug fixes from MATE 1.7.
MATE 1.6 PKGBUILDs now automatically synced to the AUR.
The Arch Linux package repository for MATE is now signed.

You can find out everything you need to know about installing MATE 1.6 on Arch Linux from the following wiki page:

https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/#!pages/./archlinux_custom_repo.md

I'd like to say a special thank you to:

Wolfgang Ulbrich for working with the Fedora development team to hunt down systemd, logind and upower fixes that are hugely beneficial for Arch Linux and also for contributing a good number of the community applications.
Sander Sweers and Stefano Karapetsas for welcoming me to the MATE Team and helping me out on IRC.

Now that the MATE 1.6 packages are in good shape I will start the process of getting MATE into the official Arch Linux repositories. You can help with that by voting for MATE packages in the AUR.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=flexiondotorg

Introducing MATE Desktop

Clement Lefebvre — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:00:30 GMT

Welcome to the MATE Desktop Environment!

Gnome 2 was the most popular Linux desktop but it's no longer available... MATE is here to provide that same desktop to you :)

Perberos initially forked Gnome 2 and called the project MATE. Users and developers have successfully run MATE on Arch Linux and due to popular demand Perberos made it easier for MATE to compile under Debian.

Stefano Karapetsas and Clement Lefebvre then joined the project and packaged it for Debian and Linux Mint. The MATE desktop was featured in Linux Mint 12 and is now quickly gaining momentum.

Our top priority is to improve MATE and for it to be on par, in terms of features and stability, with Gnome 2.32. We'll port themes, applets, and applications which were developed for Gnome 2, and help developers port their applications to this new desktop.