Mate desktop is a fork of Gnome 2, which is not being maintained by developers now. In this article let us see how to install Mate Desktop environment on FreeBSD 11.
FreeBSD 11 can be downloaded from this link. Install FreeBSD according to your requirements, and once the installation is complete, use the following steps to install Mate desktop evironment.
For more details and documentation of Mate desktop you can have a look here.
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