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The current version is Ubuntu MATE 23.10, which was released on 12 October, 2023. As an interim release, it is supported for just nine months, but the next version, 24.04, will be a long term support release, with three years of updates. It is expected out on 25 April, 2024 and supported until April, 2027.** | The current version is Ubuntu MATE 23.10, which was released on 12 October, 2023. As an interim release, it is supported for just nine months, but the next version, 24.04, will be a long term support release, with three years of updates. It is expected out on 25 April, 2024 and supported until April, 2027.** | ||
- | Cela fait assez longtemps depuis que le Full Circle a publié une critique d' | + | Cela fait assez longtemps depuis que le Full Circle a publié une critique d' |
La version actuelle est Ubuntu MATE 23.10, sortie le 12 octobre 2023. En tant que version intérimaire, | La version actuelle est Ubuntu MATE 23.10, sortie le 12 octobre 2023. En tant que version intérimaire, | ||
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- | Background | + | |
+ | **Background | ||
The MATE desktop got its start for the same reason that the Unity interface was created for Ubuntu and the Cinnamon desktop for Linux Mint. That story goes back to 2011 and the GNOME desktop project’s decision to ditch the highly successful and popular GNOME 2 desktop that had been introduced in 2002, and replace it with something completely new: GNOME 3. At its public release in April, 2011, it would be fair to say that GNOME 3 was not well received. A few people actually did like it but a lot didn’t, including not just users, but developers too. Linux kernel founder, Linus Torvalds, personally switched from GNOME to Xfce at the time, calling GNOME 3 an “unholy mess”. | The MATE desktop got its start for the same reason that the Unity interface was created for Ubuntu and the Cinnamon desktop for Linux Mint. That story goes back to 2011 and the GNOME desktop project’s decision to ditch the highly successful and popular GNOME 2 desktop that had been introduced in 2002, and replace it with something completely new: GNOME 3. At its public release in April, 2011, it would be fair to say that GNOME 3 was not well received. A few people actually did like it but a lot didn’t, including not just users, but developers too. Linux kernel founder, Linus Torvalds, personally switched from GNOME to Xfce at the time, calling GNOME 3 an “unholy mess”. | ||
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- | Le bureau MATE a été démarré pour la même raison pour laquelle l' | + | Le bureau MATE a été démarré pour la même raison pour laquelle l' |
- | Les développeurs ont rapidement commencé à travailler sur des remplaçants comme Unity et Cinnamon. C' | + | Les développeurs ont rapidement commencé à travailler sur des remplaçants comme Unity et Cinnamon. C' |
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+ | Alors que Unity et, plus tard, Cinnamon, sont devenues de magnifiques alternatives, | ||
- | Alors que Unity et, plus tard, Cinnamon, sont devenu des magnifiques alternatives, | ||
**All the main GNOME 2 components were forked and renamed, with most given Spanish names. The Nautilus file manager became Caja (Spanish for “box”), the Evince PDF reader became Atril (“lectern”) and the File Roller file archiver became Engrampa (“staple”). The Metacity window manager became Marco (“frame”), | **All the main GNOME 2 components were forked and renamed, with most given Spanish names. The Nautilus file manager became Caja (Spanish for “box”), the Evince PDF reader became Atril (“lectern”) and the File Roller file archiver became Engrampa (“staple”). The Metacity window manager became Marco (“frame”), | ||
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The project writes MATE with all capital letters, even though it is not an acronym, just to make it fit in with some of the other desktop names, like GNOME, KDE and LXDE (but not LXQt, Xfce, Unity or Cinnamon). They later devised an English recursive “backronym” to retroactively explain the use of the capital letters: "MATE Advanced Traditional Environment" | The project writes MATE with all capital letters, even though it is not an acronym, just to make it fit in with some of the other desktop names, like GNOME, KDE and LXDE (but not LXQt, Xfce, Unity or Cinnamon). They later devised an English recursive “backronym” to retroactively explain the use of the capital letters: "MATE Advanced Traditional Environment" | ||
- | Review – Ubuntu MATE 23.10 | + | Toutes les composants principaux |
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- | by Adam Hunt | + | |
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- | **It has been quite a while since Full Circle carried a review of Ubuntu MATE. In fact, the last review was of the very first release, Ubuntu MATE 14.10, written by Michael Davies and published way back in Full Circle issue 93 in January 2015. Since Ubuntu MATE is now on its 20th release, I thought it was time to see how things are progressing for this Linux distribution. | + | |
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- | The current version is Ubuntu MATE 23.10, which was released on 12 October, 2023. As an interim release, it is supported for just nine months, but the next version, 24.04, will be a long term support release, with three years of updates. It is expected out on 25 April, 2024 and supported until April, 2027.** | + | |
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- | Pas mal de temps est passé depuis que le magazine Full Circle a publié une critique d’Ubuntu MATE. En fait, la dernière était celle de la tout première publication, | + | |
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- | La version actuelle est Ubuntu MATE 23.10, sortie le 12 octobre 2023. En tant que version intérimaire, | + | |
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- | **Background | + | |
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- | The MATE desktop got its start for the same reason that the Unity interface was created for Ubuntu and the Cinnamon desktop for Linux Mint. That story goes back to 2011 and the GNOME desktop project’s decision to ditch the highly successful and popular | + | |
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- | Developers quickly started work on replacements like Unity and Cinnamon. That was a good move as LinuxQuestions surveys done before and after GNOME 3 came out showed how much its popularity slipped once people tried it out. In the earlier survey, GNOME 2 had been the number one Linux desktop with 45% use. Post release, GNOME 3 was at 19% and was number two, behind KDE.** | + | |
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- | Contexte | + | |
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- | Le bureau MATE a démarré pour la même raison que l’interface Unity a été crée pour Ubuntu et le bureau Cinnamon pour Linux Mint. Cette histoire date de 2011 et la décision du projet bureau de GNOME d’abandonner le bureau GNOME 2, qui était très réussi et populaire, et qui avait été présenté en 2002, et le remplacer | + | |
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- | Les développeurs ont tout de suite commencé à travailler sur des remplacements comme Unity et Cinnamon. C’était une excellente chose, car les enquêtes LinuxQuestions faite avant et après la sortie de GNOME 3 ont montré combien sa popularité dégringolait une fois que des gens l’ont essayé. Lors de la première enquête, GNOME 2 avait été le premier bureau Linux avec une utilisation de 45 %. Après la sortie de GNOME 3, celui-ci | + | |
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- | **While Unity and later Cinnamon became great alternatives, | + | |
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- | All the main GNOME 2 components were forked and renamed, with most given Spanish names. The Nautilus | + | |
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- | The desktop itself was named for a South American caffeine-laden herbal tea called mate. The tea is made from the yurbe mate plant (Ilex paraguariensis). It is properly pronounced “mah-tay” and not like the English word “mate”, a term that can mean “friend”, | + | |
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- | Alors que Unity et, plus tard, Cinnamon, sont devenu des alternatives géniales, quid de l’idée de tout simplement ressusciter | + | |
- | Toutes les composants principaux | + | Le bureau lui-même a été nommé d’après une tisane d’Amérique du sud plein de caféine appelée mate. Le thé est fait à partir du plant « yurbe mate » |
- | Le bureau lui-même était nommé d’après une tisane plein de caféine de l’Amérique du sud appelée mate. Le thé est fait à partir du plant « yurbe mate » (Ilex paraguariensis). Cela se prononce en fait « mah-tay » et non pas comme le mot anglais « mate », | ||
**The project writes MATE with all capital letters, even though it is not an acronym, just to make it fit in with some of the other desktop names, like GNOME, KDE and LXDE (but not LXQt, Xfce, Unity or Cinnamon). They later devised an English recursive “backronym” to retroactively explain the use of the capital letters: "MATE Advanced Traditional Environment" | **The project writes MATE with all capital letters, even though it is not an acronym, just to make it fit in with some of the other desktop names, like GNOME, KDE and LXDE (but not LXQt, Xfce, Unity or Cinnamon). They later devised an English recursive “backronym” to retroactively explain the use of the capital letters: "MATE Advanced Traditional Environment" | ||
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Le projet écrit MATE tout en majuscules, bien qu’il ne soit pas un acronyme, tout simplement pour qu’il ressemble à certains d’autres noms de bureau comme GNOME, KDE ET LXDE (mais pas LXQt, Xfce, Unity ou Cinnamon). Plus tard, ils ont créé un nom anglais récursif, un « backronyme » pour expliquer rétroactivement l’utilisation des majuscules : | Le projet écrit MATE tout en majuscules, bien qu’il ne soit pas un acronyme, tout simplement pour qu’il ressemble à certains d’autres noms de bureau comme GNOME, KDE ET LXDE (mais pas LXQt, Xfce, Unity ou Cinnamon). Plus tard, ils ont créé un nom anglais récursif, un « backronyme » pour expliquer rétroactivement l’utilisation des majuscules : | ||
- | Le bureau MATE a commencé comme un clone direct de GNOME 2, y compris l’utilisation de son système de trois menus (Applications, | + | Le bureau MATE a commencé comme un clone direct de GNOME 2, y compris l’utilisation de son système de trois menus (Applications, |
**With MATE out in August, 2011, two developers, Martin Wimpress and Alan Pope, decided to put the new desktop on the Ubuntu backend and the first release of Ubuntu MATE was made on 23 October, 2014, using Ubuntu 14.10 as a base. 19 days later, on 11 November, 2014, they put out a version based on the earlier Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to provide long term support. The very next release, Ubuntu MATE 15.04, came out with official Ubuntu flavor status. Today the distribution is still led by Wimpress and Pope and it has attracted a whole community of developers to spread the workload around. Wimpress is also involved in an effort to develop an improved MATE experience, one that is closer to Ubuntu MATE for Debian.** | **With MATE out in August, 2011, two developers, Martin Wimpress and Alan Pope, decided to put the new desktop on the Ubuntu backend and the first release of Ubuntu MATE was made on 23 October, 2014, using Ubuntu 14.10 as a base. 19 days later, on 11 November, 2014, they put out a version based on the earlier Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to provide long term support. The very next release, Ubuntu MATE 15.04, came out with official Ubuntu flavor status. Today the distribution is still led by Wimpress and Pope and it has attracted a whole community of developers to spread the workload around. Wimpress is also involved in an effort to develop an improved MATE experience, one that is closer to Ubuntu MATE for Debian.** | ||
- | Quand MATE est sortie en août 2011, deux développeurs, | + | Quand MATE est sortie en août 2011, deux développeurs, |
**With 20 releases over the last ten years under its belt, Ubuntu MATE is a pretty mature distribution with a dedicated base of users. It has a rather paradoxical motto, “for a retrospective future”. | **With 20 releases over the last ten years under its belt, Ubuntu MATE is a pretty mature distribution with a dedicated base of users. It has a rather paradoxical motto, “for a retrospective future”. | ||
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Avec 20 sorties au cours des dix dernières années, Ubuntu MATE est une distribution mûre avec une base d’utilisateurs dédiée. Sa devise est assez paradoxale : | Avec 20 sorties au cours des dix dernières années, Ubuntu MATE est une distribution mûre avec une base d’utilisateurs dédiée. Sa devise est assez paradoxale : | ||
- | Il vaut le coup de se rappeler que pendant ses six premières années d’existence, | + | Il vaut le coup de se rappeler que pendant ses six premières années d’existence, |
**Installation | **Installation | ||
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Installation | Installation | ||
- | C’était plus d’un mois après la date de sortie officielle, le 12 octobre 2023, que j’ai téléchargé le fichier ISO d’Ubuntu MATE 23.10 de 3,6 Go à partir du site Web via HTTP, puisque que les BitTorrents ont été fermés. Une fois le fichier téléchargé, | + | C’était plus d’un mois après la date de sortie officielle, le 12 octobre 2023, que j’ai téléchargé le fichier ISO d’Ubuntu MATE 23.10 de 3,6 Go à partir du site Web via HTTP, puisque que les BitTorrents ont été fermés. Une fois le fichier téléchargé, |
J’ai mis le fichier ISO d’Ubuntu 23.10 sur une clé USB équipée de Ventoy 1.0.96 et j’ai démarré dessus. Ubuntu MATE est listée comme étant prise en charge par Ventoy et, comme attendu, cela a très bien fonctionné. | J’ai mis le fichier ISO d’Ubuntu 23.10 sur une clé USB équipée de Ventoy 1.0.96 et j’ai démarré dessus. Ubuntu MATE est listée comme étant prise en charge par Ventoy et, comme attendu, cela a très bien fonctionné. | ||
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**System requirements | **System requirements | ||
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Essayer Ubuntu MATE | Essayer Ubuntu MATE | ||
- | Au démarrage, Ubuntu MATE 23.10 affiche un bureau simple avec deux panneaux, l’un en haut de l’écran et l’autre en bas, tout comme GNOME 2. Le papier peint et le thème sont verts. Elle ressemble beaucoup à GNOME 2 , sauf pour ce qui concerne le menu. | + | Au démarrage, Ubuntu MATE 23.10 affiche un bureau simple avec deux panneaux, l’un en haut de l’écran et l’autre en bas, tout comme GNOME 2. Le papier peint et le thème sont verts. Elle ressemble beaucoup à GNOME 2, sauf pour ce qui concerne le menu. |
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+ | Le nouveau menu est la caractéristique clé de MATE, puisque c’est ici que vous lancez des applications et trouvez les paramètres. Le menu contient des catégories pour les favoris, toutes les applications, | ||
- | Le nouveau menu est la caractéristique clé de MATE, puisque c’est ici que vous lancer des applications et trouver les paramètres. Le menu contient des catégories pour les favoris, toutes les applications, | ||
**MATE is a rarity in having two panels, in an age where most desktops only have one. The bottom one can be right-clicked and deleted, but then you will have to rely on alt-tab to find minimized applications, | **MATE is a rarity in having two panels, in an age where most desktops only have one. The bottom one can be right-clicked and deleted, but then you will have to rely on alt-tab to find minimized applications, | ||
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MATE will feel very familiar to people who have used GNOME 2. For new users, its inherent simplicity and high discoverability makes it a quick study with a low learning curve. Almost anyone would feel at home here in a few minutes.** | MATE will feel very familiar to people who have used GNOME 2. For new users, its inherent simplicity and high discoverability makes it a quick study with a low learning curve. Almost anyone would feel at home here in a few minutes.** | ||
- | MATE est un rareté avec ses deux panneaux à une époque où la plupart de bureaux n’en ont qu’un. On peut faire un clic droit sur celui du bas pour le supprimer, mais alors il faudrait dépendre de alt-tréinitiqliserab | + | MATE est un rareté avec ses deux panneaux à une époque où la plupart de bureaux n’en ont qu’un. On peut faire un clic droit sur celui du bas pour le supprimer, mais alors il faudrait dépendre de alt-tab pour trouver des applications minimisées ; |
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+ | MATE semblera très familier aux gens qui ont utilisé GNOME 2. Pour les nouveaux utilisateurs, | ||
- | MATE semblera très familier aux gens qui ont utilisé GNOME 2. Pour les nouveaux utilisateurs, | ||
**New | **New | ||
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En tant que version simple, Ubuntu MATE 23.10 n’apporte pas beaucoup de nouveautés, | En tant que version simple, Ubuntu MATE 23.10 n’apporte pas beaucoup de nouveautés, | ||
- | Dans cette publication, | + | Dans cette publication, |
**This release continues the recent trend of including at least one artificial intelligence-generated wallpaper. For this release, codenamed “Mantic Minotaur”, | **This release continues the recent trend of including at least one artificial intelligence-generated wallpaper. For this release, codenamed “Mantic Minotaur”, | ||
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For users who like a dock on their desktop, MATE has the Plank desktop dock installed by default but not turned on. It can easily be activated by opening the Plank preferences dialogue box which also includes a plethora of settings. Plank is easy to turn off, too.** | For users who like a dock on their desktop, MATE has the Plank desktop dock installed by default but not turned on. It can easily be activated by opening the Plank preferences dialogue box which also includes a plethora of settings. Plank is easy to turn off, too.** | ||
- | Cette publication continue la tendance récente d’inclure au moins un papier peint généré par l’intelligence artificielle. Pour cette version, nom de code « Mantic Minotaur », | + | Cette publication continue la tendance récente d’inclure au moins un papier peint généré par l’intelligence artificielle. Pour cette version, nom de code « Mantic Minotaur », |
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+ | Paramètres | ||
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+ | Ubuntu MATE propose un thème vert par défaut et cela inclut le fond d' | ||
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+ | Pour les utilisateurs qui aiment avoir une station d' | ||
**Applications | **Applications | ||
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• Rhythmbox 3.4.7 music player | • Rhythmbox 3.4.7 music player | ||
• Shotwell 0.32.2 photo manager | • Shotwell 0.32.2 photo manager | ||
- | • Software Boutique 0+git.0fdcecc software store** | + | • Software Boutique 0+git.0fdcecc software store< |
• Transmission 4.0.2 bittorrent client | • Transmission 4.0.2 bittorrent client | ||
• Webcamoid 9.1.1 webcam | • Webcamoid 9.1.1 webcam | ||
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< | < | ||
- | Beaucoup des applications par défaut incluses sont des branches | + | Beaucoup des applications par défaut incluses sont des dérivés de MATE, venant à l’origine du bureau GNOME. |
**MATE has its own Caja file manager in place of the standard Gnome file manager, Nautilus. Caja is a fork of Nautilus with some of Nautilus' | **MATE has its own Caja file manager in place of the standard Gnome file manager, Nautilus. Caja is a fork of Nautilus with some of Nautilus' | ||
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The list of default applications provided is fairly complete, but not excessive, and, unlike Ubuntu Cinnamon, no functional duplicates are included. For most desktop users, there will not be many applications to add from the repositories, | The list of default applications provided is fairly complete, but not excessive, and, unlike Ubuntu Cinnamon, no functional duplicates are included. For most desktop users, there will not be many applications to add from the repositories, | ||
- | A la place du gestionnaire de fichiers Gnome standard, MATE a son propre gestionnaire de fichiers Caja. Caja est une branche de Nautilus dans laquelle | + | A la place du gestionnaire de fichiers Gnome standard, MATE a son propre gestionnaire de fichiers Caja. Caja est une branche de Nautilus dans laquelle |
- | Le magasin Software Boutique est unique au projet d’Ubuntu MATE. Il a été écrit comme une amélioration de GNOME Software et Ubuntu Software. Il est inclus comme un paquet Snap, mais ses origines se trouvent dans des sources du projet github et non pas de l’Ubuntu Snap Store habituel, snapcraft.io. | + | Le magasin Software Boutique est propre |
- | La liste des applications par défaut fournies est assez complète, mais pas excessive et, contrairement à Ubuntu Cinnamon, elle ne contient pas de doubles | + | La liste des applications par défaut fournies est assez complète, mais pas excessive et, contrairement à Ubuntu Cinnamon, elle ne contient pas de doubles |
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External links | External links | ||
- | Official website: https:// | + | Official website: https:// |
Conclusions | Conclusions | ||
- | Si les premières versions GNOME 2 d’Ubuntu vous ont plu, vous allez probablement aimer Ubuntu MATE que c’en est un digne successeur et globalement très similaire. | + | Si les premières versions GNOME 2 d’Ubuntu vous ont plu, vous allez probablement aimer Ubuntu MATE qui en est un digne successeur et globalement très similaire. |
Si Linux est nouveau pour vous, tout particulièrement si vous y venez de Windows et cherchez un bureau qui est très simple et piloté par des menus que vous pouvez maîtriser en quelques minutes, alors Ubuntu MATE peut devenir votre chez-vous à jamais dans le monde de Linux. | Si Linux est nouveau pour vous, tout particulièrement si vous y venez de Windows et cherchez un bureau qui est très simple et piloté par des menus que vous pouvez maîtriser en quelques minutes, alors Ubuntu MATE peut devenir votre chez-vous à jamais dans le monde de Linux. | ||
- | Si vous êtes le genre d’utilisateur que cherche des effets fantastiques, | + | Si vous êtes le genre d’utilisateur que cherche des effets fantastiques, |
La prochaine version d’Ubuntu MATE est une version à support à long terme, la 24.04 LTS, avec trois années de prise en charge. Elle est sortie en avril 2024. | La prochaine version d’Ubuntu MATE est une version à support à long terme, la 24.04 LTS, avec trois années de prise en charge. Elle est sortie en avril 2024. | ||
- | Biography: | + | Liens externes |
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- | Adam Hunt started using Ubuntu in 2007, Lubuntu in 2010, and Pop!_OS in 2023. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in a house with no Windows. | + | |
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- | The MATE desktop started out as a direct clone of GNOME 2, including using its three menu system (Applications, | + | |
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- | With MATE out in August, 2011, two developers, Martin Wimpress and Alan Pope, decided to put the new desktop on the Ubuntu backend and the first release of Ubuntu MATE was made on 23 October, 2014, using Ubuntu 14.10 as a base. 19 days later, on 11 November, 2014, they put out a version based on the earlier Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to provide long term support. The very next release, Ubuntu MATE 15.04, came out with official Ubuntu flavor status. Today the distribution is still led by Wimpress and Pope and it has attracted a whole community of developers to spread the workload around. Wimpress is also involved in an effort to develop an improved MATE experience, one that is closer to Ubuntu MATE for Debian. | + | |
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- | With 20 releases over the last ten years under its belt, Ubuntu MATE is a pretty mature distribution with a dedicated base of users. It has a rather paradoxical motto, “for a retrospective future”. | + | |
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- | It is worth recalling that for its first six years of existence, mainstream Ubuntu used the GNOME 2 desktop, from Ubuntu 4.10 to 10.10. Starting with Ubuntu 11.04, it moved to the Unity interface to avoid GNOME 3. Unity on Ubuntu lasted six years, until Ubuntu 17.04, when it was dropped in favor of the modified GNOME 3 desktop which it continues with today. In fairness, GNOME 3 has improved over time and Unity lives on as the interface for Ubuntu Unity. | + | |
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- | Installation | + | |
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- | It was more than a month after the official release date of 12 October, 2023, that I downloaded the 3.6 GB Ubuntu MATE 23.10 ISO file from the official website via HTTP, as the BitTorrents had been shut down. Once I had the file downloaded, I carried out an SHA256 sum check from the command line to confirm that it was an uncorrupted download. | + | |
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- | I dropped the Ubuntu MATE 23.10 ISO file onto a USB stick, equipped with Ventoy 1.0.96, and booted it up. Ubuntu MATE is listed as officially supported by Ventoy and, as expected, it worked fine. | + | |
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- | System requirements | + | |
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- | The Ubuntu MATE website lists the minimum hardware as: | + | |
- | Dual core processor | + | |
- | 64-bit | + | |
- | 1 GB of RAM | + | |
- | 8 GB of disk space | + | |
- | Display 1024 X 768 px | + | |
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- | The recommended hardware is: | + | |
- | Core i3 processor | + | |
- | 64-bit | + | |
- | 4 GB of RAM | + | |
- | 16 GB of disk space | + | |
- | Display 1440 X 900 px, with graphics card | + | |
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- | Raspberry Pi B models are also supported including the Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 3+ and 4 (all memory sizes). | + | |
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- | Ubuntu MATE is actually fairly lightweight compared to most other Ubuntu derivatives. | + | |
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- | Trying out Ubuntu MATE | + | |
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- | On boot up Ubuntu MATE 23.10 presents a simple desktop with two panels, one at the screen top and the other at the bottom, just like GNOME 2. The wallpaper and theme are green. It all looks very much like GNOME 2 with the exception of the menu. | + | |
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- | The new menu is the key MATE feature, since this is where you launch applications and find the settings. The menu has categories for favorites, all applications, | + | |
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- | MATE is a rarity in having two panels, in an age where most desktops only have one. The bottom one can be right-clicked and deleted, but then you will have to rely on alt-tab to find minimized applications, | + | |
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- | MATE will feel very familiar to people who have used GNOME 2. For new users, its inherent simplicity and high discoverability makes it a quick study with a low learning curve. Almost anyone would feel at home here in a few minutes. | + | |
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- | New | + | |
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- | As a single release, Ubuntu MATE 23.10 does not bring a lot of new features, mostly just a few fixes. This is as expected, since the project was started as a reaction to too much radical change in the first place. When you reach perfection, any changes will make it worse. | + | |
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- | In this release, the desktop is now at version 1.26.2, which includes some bug fixes and minor improvements. The rest of the listed changes are all small and mostly “behind-the-scenes” items, which users are unlikely to notice. | + | |
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- | This release continues the recent trend of including at least one artificial intelligence-generated wallpaper. For this release, codenamed “Mantic Minotaur”, | + | |
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- | Settings | + | |
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- | Ubuntu MATE features a default green theme and that includes the default wallpaper for 23.10, which is a simple geometric design with the MATE logo. In total, 28 wallpaper designs are provided, including the aforementioned Minotaur wallpaper, so there are lots of choices. Furthermore, | + | |
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- | For users who like a dock on their desktop, MATE has the Plank desktop dock installed by default but not turned on. It can easily be activated by opening the Plank preferences dialogue box which also includes a plethora of settings. Plank is easy to turn off, too. | + | |
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- | Applications | + | |
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- | Some of the applications included with Ubuntu MATE 23.10 are: | + | |
- | Atril 1.26.0 PDF viewer* | + | |
- | Caja 1.26.1 file manager | + | |
- | Celluloid 0.25 video player | + | |
- | CUPS 2.4.6 printing system | + | |
- | Document Scanner (Simple Scan) 44.0 optical scanner* | + | |
- | Engrampa 1.26.0 file archiver* | + | |
- | Evolution 3.50.0 email client | + | |
- | Eye of MATE 1.26.0 image viewer* | + | |
- | Firefox 118.0.1 web browser** | + | |
- | GDebi 44.2 package installer | + | |
- | GNOME Disks 45.0 disk manager | + | |
- | Gparted 1.5.0 partition editor | + | |
- | GUFW 22.04.0 firewall controller | + | |
- | MATE Calculator 1.26.0 calculator* | + | |
- | MATE Control Center 1.26.1 settings manager | + | |
- | MATE Disk Usage Analyzer 1.26.1 (baobab) disk display | + | |
- | MATE System Monitor 1.26.0 system resource monitor | + | |
- | MATE Terminal 1.26.1 terminal emulator | + | |
- | LibreOffice 7.6.2 office suite | + | |
- | Pipewire 0.3.79 audio controller | + | |
- | Plank 0.11.89 desktop dock* | + | |
- | Pluma 1.26.0 text editor* | + | |
- | Redshift 1.12 screen color temperature adjuster* | + | |
- | Rhythmbox 3.4.7 music player | + | |
- | Shotwell 0.32.2 photo manager | + | |
- | Software Boutique 0+git.0fdcecc software store** | + | |
- | Transmission 4.0.2 bittorrent client | + | |
- | Webcamoid 9.1.1 webcam | + | |
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- | * indicates same application version as used in Ubuntu MATE 23.04 | + | |
- | ** supplied as a snap, so version depends on the upstream package manager | + | |
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- | Many of the default applications included are MATE forks, originally from the GNOME desktop. | + | |
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- | MATE has its own Caja file manager in place of the standard Gnome file manager, Nautilus. Caja is a fork of Nautilus with some of Nautilus' | + | |
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- | The Software Boutique store is unique to the Ubuntu MATE project. It was written as an improvement on GNOME Software and Ubuntu Software. It is included as a Snap package but originates from project github sources, not from the usual Ubuntu Snap Store, snapcraft.io. | + | |
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- | The list of default applications provided is fairly complete, but not excessive, and, unlike Ubuntu Cinnamon, no functional duplicates are included. For most desktop users, there will not be many applications to add from the repositories, | + | |
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- | Conclusions | + | |
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- | If you liked the early GNOME 2 versions of Ubuntu, you will probably love Ubuntu MATE, as it is a worthy successor and overall very similar. | + | |
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- | If you are new to Linux, particularly coming from Windows, and looking for a very simple, menu-driven desktop that you can master in a few minutes, then Ubuntu MATE may be your ticket to a fast home in the Linux world. | + | |
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- | If you are the sort of user who is looking for fancy effects, bling and gimmicks, then I would suggest you walk right past Ubuntu MATE, because you will be quickly bored. This is a minimalist distribution that stays out of your way and lets you get work done. It is not fancy. | + | |
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- | The next Ubuntu MATE release will be a long term support version, 24.04 LTS, with three years of support, due out on 25 April, 2024. | + | |
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- | External links | + | |
- | Official website: | + | Site Web officiel: |
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