EDate claims 46.5 million members which is up about 16 million members from 6 years ago (when it was Mate1). Mate1 launched back in 2003 and became popular fairly soon afterwards. Unfortunately though in the last 10 years with the rise of dating apps things have not turned in Mate1's favor. This is part of the reason I suspect was for the name. OBD Mate is a driving mate, which uses bluetooth to communicate with vehicle terminal to complete fault diagnosis and driving assistance by smart phone and tablet. OBD Mate has many functions, such as reading code, clearing code, freeze frame, O2 sensor, battery voltage, transmission, EVAP and performance test, it also has cool and custom-made.

The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It providesan intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditionalmetaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

MATE is under active development to add support for new technologieswhile preserving a traditional desktop experience. See theRoadmap.

Mate1 Dating App

You can find more screenshots of MATE.

Mate1 Free Dating Site

News

• 2020-02-10 09:00 MATE 1.24 released
• 2019-03-18 09:00 MATE 1.22 released
• 2018-02-07 09:00 MATE 1.20 released
• 2017-03-13 23:30 MATE 1.18 released
• 2016-12-22 01:00 Server Outage

Blog posts are also indexed by tag and archived bydate. You might also want to take a look at PlanetMATE to see what the wider MATEcommunity are blogging about.

Which distributions support MATE?

MATE is available via the official repositories for the followingLinux distributions:

MATE is available via unofficial repositories for the following Linux distributions:

Maybe you prefer UNIX?

You can also query DistroWatch.com for all the distributions thatsupportMATE.

The MATE community has documented how to install MATE on manydistributions in the installguidelines.

Applications

MATE is composed of a number of applications. The renaming is necessaryto avoid conflicts with GNOME components.

Caja

Caja is the official file manager for the MATE desktop. It allows forbrowsing directories, as well as previewing files and launchingapplications associated with them. It is also responsible for handlingthe icons on the MATE desktop. It works on local and remote filesystems.Caja is a fork of Nautilus.

Pluma

Pluma is a text editor which supports most standard editor features. Italso extends this basic functionality with other features not usuallyfound in simple text editors. Pluma is a graphical application whichsupports editing multiple text files in one window (known sometimes astabs or MDI). Pluma fully supports international text through its use ofthe Unicode UTF-8 encoding in edited files. Its core feature setincludes syntax highlighting of source code, auto indentation, andprinting support (with print preview). Pluma is a fork of Gedit.

Eye of MATE

eom or the Eye of MATE is a simple graphics viewer for the MATE desktopwhich uses the gdk-pixbuf library. It can deal with large images, andcan zoom and scroll with constant memory usage. Its goals are simplicityand standards compliance. Eye of MATE is a fork of Eye of GNOME.

Atril

Atril is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and printPostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DJVU, DVI, XPS andPortable Document Format (PDF) files. When supported by the document, italso allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertextnavigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks. Atril is a fork of Evince.

Engrampa

Engrampa is an archive manager for the MATE environment. It allows youto create and modify archives, view the contents of an archive, view afile contained in an archive, and extract files from archive. Engrampais a fork of File Roller.

MATE Terminal

MATE Terminal is a terminal emulation application that you can use toaccess a UNIX shell in the MATE environment. With it, you can run anyapplication that is designed to run on VT102, VT220, and xtermterminals. MATE Terminal also has the ability to use multiple terminalsin a single window (tabs) and supports management of differentconfigurations (profiles). MATE Terminal is a fork of GNOME Terminal.

Where does the name come from?

The name 'MATE', pronounced Ma-Tay, comes from yerbamaté, a species of hollynative to subtropical South America. Its leaves contain caffeine and areused to make infusions and a beverage called mate.