I’m a member of the MATE Desktop team and until recently the majority of my involvement has been focused around Arch Linux. However, I’m working on a MATE project that is based on a Debian derivative. MATE has recently been accepted into the Debian Backports repository for Wheezy, so I decided to do a “MATE from scratch” on Debian using an old netbook to get familiar with the MATE package naming differences between Arch Linux and Debian. Install Debian I installed Debian Wheezy from t...
