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Episode 4:14: Spill the Tea

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Show Notes

Coming up in this episode

The AI Revolution is Coming

The History of MATE

We Read the Tea Leaves

Then Look to Lighten the Load

The Video

https://youtu.be/rKEIwDb1R9Q

0:00 Cold Open

4:09 Embrace the AI Overlords

21:45 The History of MATE

42:22 How Is MATE?

1:05:16 Next Time

1:07:51 Stinger

Preshow - The Computer Shopper

Dan is sitting on a gold mine with his collection of Computer Shoppers

🔥Warm Up🔥 - AI on the Linux Desktop

Deepin OS is working on adding AI in Another link

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The History of Mate

The first MATE org blogpost

The initial Arch Linux forum post

Perberos described the fork as...

Phoronix August 2011

ingeek 2011

Perberos attempted to grow the community on the Ubuntu forums and Linux Mint forums

Perberos, Clement Lefebvre, Stefano Karapetsas, and Steve Zesch were the founders.

The initial migration script

Salix had been one of the very first distributions to headline MATE

The GNOME team created GNOME Flashback

MATE University

GhostBSD features the Mate desktop

By the end of the year and into 2014, MATE was officially available in Arch, Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Sabayon, Salix and Ubuntu.

Stefano Karapestas stepped up to lead the team.

Clem had his part-ownership of MATE removed. He had this to say

The big scoop MATE 1.28 and1.28.1 were recently released!

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Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is the LXDE Desktop Environment.

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