Submission + - Mate Desktop evironment the future of gnome 2 (datamation.com)
chris_lukehart writes: ""In the past year, the GNOME 2 release series has become the zombie of the free desktop. Although replaced by GNOME 3, it refuses to die. Its mourners flock to Xfce, in which they see a resemblance of the deceased. It lives an undead existence in a crippled version in the current GNOME's fallback mode.""