OK, have installed Mate and first impressions are pretty positive. WIll run with it for a while and compare the experience with Lubuntu on works laptop and SQueeze on the other box. Thanks!
On 14 July 2014 22:14, John Carlyle-Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep, I took David W's advice and installed MATE on a new Debian VM, and I > haven't regretted it. > On 14 Jul 2014 18:26, "David Wilkinson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 for MATE, Run it on all my newer builds. > > > > On 14/07/14 16:58, StarLion wrote: > > > >> MATE is also an alternative that I believe is in the official > repositories > >> now - it's a fork of Gnome 2 and is effectively identical but for names > >> (Due to licensing restrictions, I believe). > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 > > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > > New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] > > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue > -- best regards, 웃 Victor Churchill, Bournemouth -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
