Mate

Jul 20, 2023

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MATE is a fork of GNOME 2.

It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to users using traditional metaphors.

Where does the name come from?

The name “MATE” comes from yerba mate, a species of holly native to subtropical South America. Its leaves contain caffeine and are used to make infusions and a beverage called mate.

This metaport installs MATE base lite, a lean desktop plus extras applications such as text editor, archiver manager and etc. If you do not want to have the bloats, please install x11/mate-base.



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