[Discuss] Fedora 18 to get MATE desktop

[Tom Metro]

The headline makes it sound more significant than it is. They're just
adding the MATE (http://mate-desktop.org/) package to the repository.
Not making it a default desktop (unlike Linux Mint). But still, it is
more momentum behind this non-GNOME 3 option.

 -Tom

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-18-to-get-MATE-desktop-Samba-4-and-ownCloud-1655987.html
  A Fedora developer has proposed adding the packages for the MATE
  Desktop Environment - a fork of the older 2.x branch of GNOME - into
  the repositories for Fedora 18, which is due for release in early
  November. The proposal was approved at yesterday's meeting of Fedora's
  Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo).