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EntityQ194090· pop 43· linked from 278 articles

desktop environment forked from GNOME 2

Key facts

Developers
Clement Lefebvre, Perberos, Stefano Karapetsas, et al.
Initial release
August 19, 2011 ; 14 years ago ( 2011-08-19 )
Stable release
1.28.2 / 11 March 2024 ; 2 years ago ( 11 March 2024 )
Written in
C
Operating system
Unix-like , Unix
Type
Desktop environment
License
GPLv2+ , LGPLv2+
Website
mate-desktop .org
Repository
github .com /mate-desktop /mate-desktop

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

MATE (/ˈmɑːteɪ/ MAH-tay) is a desktop environment composed of free and open-source software that runs on Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems such as BSD, and Illumos.

Name

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