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Complete Mate 1.8 on Debian repos

Post by wayne128 »

From Distrowatch this week

Mate 1.8 complete on Debian repos, wheezy backport, Jessie and Sid
[Debian GNU/Linux] Fans of both Debian GNU/Linux and the classic GNOME 2 desktop received good news last week. The MATE project, a fork of GNOME 2 which strives to maintain and modernize the classic GNOME experience, has been packaged for Debian. In a post to the Debian Developers mailing list Mike Gabriel wrote: "The MATE desktop environment is a fork of what was formerly known as the GNOME v2 desktop environment. The MATE upstream developers have performed a really good job in integrating the old GNOME code with latest technologies like DConf and GSettings. The next upcoming release of MATE (which will be the 1.10 series) will also have GTK+ 3 support (if things go well!). During the last 6 months several people have worked on the provisioning of MATE packages in Debian. The initial workload has now been completed!" MATE desktop packages are available in the Debian Testing package repository and in Wheezy's backports repository for people running the Stable branch of Debian.

I did a quick install, to Debian Wheez-XFCE -turn-Sid partition on USB drive,

one line code to install mate 1.8
# This will install the base packages required for a minimal MATE desktop
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment


Copy out from Mate Debian Wiki
Debian

MATE 1.8 is currently packaged for wheezy (backports), testing (jessie) and unstable. In the case of wheezy the backports repository has to be enabled as described in the official backport documentation. Do make sure you update the repository after enabling backports.

# Make sure package list is up-to-date.
sudo apt-get update
# To install MATE choose *one* of the three apt-get lines below.
# This will install the base packages required for a minimal MATE desktop
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-core
# This will install the complete MATE desktop
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
# This will install the complete MATE desktop including a few extras
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extras

Here is just a few check.
I run it on this 11-yr old Pentium 4, 2.4G single code CPU!!
and run from USB drive.

With iceweasel (Firefox) running 5 tabs..plus running youtube video ( which tax lots of graphic/cpu)
It consume about 3xxM

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wayne@debian74:~$ inxi -SGM
System:    Host: debian74 Kernel: 3.13-1-686-pae i686 (32 bit) 
           Desktop: MATE 1.8.1  Distro: Debian GNU/Linux jessie/sid 
Machine:   System: Compaq Presario 061 product: DK266A-AB4 S4150AP SE210 v: 0oK0411RE101KUNGU10
           Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: MS-6575 v: 3.10
           Bios: Phoenix v: 3.06 date: 10/16/2003
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV280 [Radeon 9200]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.15.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1440x900@59.9hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits)
           GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.0


wayne@debian74:~$ free -h
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1.2G       635M       626M       4.7M        34M       269M
-/+ buffers/cache:       331M       930M
Swap:           0B         0B         0B
wayne@debian74:~$ 

If just open htop, it shows 112M... light enough for low RAM old comps.

Mate 1.8 is looking good for Debian based distros..
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Re: Complete Mate 1.8 on Debian repos

Post by Monsta »

Wow, it made it even to Wheezy backports, cool 8)
eanfrid

Re: Complete Mate 1.8 on Debian repos

Post by eanfrid »

Debian Wheezy + MATE 1.8 from wheezy-backports works perfectly. Big win !
wayne128

Re: Complete Mate 1.8 on Debian repos

Post by wayne128 »

can't resist making another one Debian-lxde-openbox-mate.

Install Debian-lxde-wheezy from debian netinstall

Then just follow the wiki
https://wiki.debian.org/Backports

enable backports

apt-get -t wheezy-backports install mate-desktop-environment

quick check.
idling with htop, RAM around 112M
run iceweasel 5 tabs open plus one running youtube video: htop shows RAM around 210-220M

3.2G of hard disk space.

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root@debianlxde:/home/wayne# df -h
Filesystem                                              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                                                   20G  3.2G   16G  18% /


very snappy for this Debian-lxde-openbox-mate combo.
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