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 (https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=computer+shopper+magazine&_sacat=0) 🔥Warm Up🔥 - AI on the Linux Desktop Deepin OS is working on adding AI in (https://www.deepin.org/en/deepin-and-ai/) Another link (https://news.itsfoss.com/deepin-linux-distro-ai/) 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: * 📺️Youtube (https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace) * 📽️TILvids (https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace) * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons (https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace) like you 😍 The History of Mate The first MATE org blogpost (https://mate-desktop.org/blog/2011-12-05-introducing-mate-desktop/) The initial Arch Linux forum post (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162&p=1) Perberos described the fork as... (https://youtu.be/iwQ7iqNwRKs?t=64) Phoronix August 2011 (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OTgxMA) ingeek 2011 (https://web.archive.org/web/20140214105804/http://ingeek.com/a-gnome-2-fork-the-mate-desktop-environment) Perberos attempted to grow the community on the Ubuntu forums (https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11333073) and Linux Mint forums (https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=86481) Perberos, Clement Lefebvre, Stefano Karapetsas, and Steve Zesch were the founders (https://web.archive.org/web/20120122102625/http://mate-desktop.org:80/team/). The initial migration script (https://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.1/) Salix (https://forum.salixos.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3510#p22897) had been one of the very first distributions to headline MATE The GNOME team created GNOME Flashback (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeFlashback#History) MATE University (https://github.com/mate-desktop-legacy-archive/mate-university) GhostBSD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GhostBSD) features the Mate desktop By the end of the year and into 2014 (https://youtu.be/iwQ7iqNwRKs), MATE was officially available in Arch, Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Sabayon, Salix and Ubuntu. Stefano Karapestas stepped up (https://youtu.be/sRNK9QnnvCo?t=1395) to lead the team. Clem had his part-ownership of MATE removed. He had this to say (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4591) The big scoop MATE 1.28 (https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop/releases/tag/v1.28.0) and1.28.1 (https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop/releases/tag/v1.28.1) were recently released! More 📣Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum) 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch all the great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord or Lemmy. * 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show) * 📰 Linux User Space subreddit (https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit) * ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server (https://linuxuserspace.show/discord) * 📲 Linux User Space Telegram (https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram) * ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix (https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix) * 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) * 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon (https://linuxuserspace.show/mastodon) * 📜 Linux User Space Twitter (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitter) * 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids (https://linuxuserspace.show/tilvids) Next Time Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is the LXDE Desktop Environment (https://www.lxde.org/). Stay tuned 📡 and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support! Producer Bruno Dave John Johnny Co-Producer Tim GrouchyM Super User A.J. Advait CubicleNate Eduardo S. Hausken jeff3ix Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Livet Mark the Saigoneer Musical Coder Nicholas Nick Pjol sleepyeyesvince The Saigoneer Tobias