OpenIndiana Operating System Gets MATE 1.14 Desktop Environment, New ISOs

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Alexander Pyhalov from the OpenIndiana development team was happy to announce the availability of the latest MATE 1.14 open-source desktop environment for the Solaris-derived operating system.

It’s been a long time since we wrote something here about the OpenIndiana project, which apparently is still being actively developed and receives some of the newest GNU and Open Source technologies, such as the MATE 1.14 desktop environment, for which the development team created a special meta-package to ease the entire installation process. But it looks like there’s a small conflict with the GNOME 2 desktop.

“We are pleased to announce that MATE 1.14 is available in OI now. To facilitate installing, we’ve created pkg:/mate_install meta-package. Unfortunately, when you have both GNOME 2 and MATE installed, both of them try to use the same applications, so you’ll have interesting time removing GNOME 2 applications from MATE and vice versa,” said Alexander Pyhalov in the <a h… (read…

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