MATE Desktop on RHEL 7 beta
I was surprised to see there wasn't yet a MATE desktop thread for RHEL 7 beta.
Our users so far are pretty bummed to not see it as part of the everything-7 channel.
Is Redhat working on a workstation DE that users will accept or are we stuck with trying to come up with something that works for users but is unsupported by RedHat (such as including MATE on our own)?
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Hey Kodiak! Please excuse my ignorance as I have very little knowledge about this topic (which will be painfully obvious).
What is MATE? From what I gathered, it seems to be a Gnome 2 off-shoot? Similar to compiz?
I thought a majority of those types of implementations were part of the EPEL, or 3rd-party REPOs - not any of the standard Red Hat Channels (I could be wrong on that).
I believe RHEL 7 is based on Gnome 3 (but defaults to Gnome Classic). Does MATE have a Gnome 3 compatible install?
Hi Kodiak,
We're offering Gnome 3 (with Gnome Classic as the default) and KDE 4.10. With so many desktop options of interest in the community (isn't that a great thing?), it's hard for us to offer them all and look to the community to create EPELs or 3rd party repos. Will you be be doing this to help serve the MATE fans?
Is there any particular reason why Red Hat prefers GNOME by default over MATE? Is it simply because Fedora also uses GNOME by default and so it now represents the path of least resistance for Red Hat?
I just wanted to add my opinion to the discussion. In our environment we are running Development Workstations on our internal cloud (VMWare). These systems do not have accelerated graphics and are accessed via VNC or RDP. Gnome3 (even Gnome classic) on these machines uses up a significant portion of the allocated CPU cycles that we would rather put towards the IDE or App Servers. Also, there is hesitation to approve the EPEL repo's in our environment.
Having a lightweight (i.e. does not require 3D acceleration or massive CPU cycles) desktop available in the RHEL repo's would be greatly appreciated.
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