Para un futuro retrospectivo.
Pearl MATE es un sistema operativo: el software principal que ejecuta su ordenador, similar a , y . Pearl MATE es una distribución de escritorio (variación) de GNU / Linux: un sistema informático moderno, confiable, capaz y confiable que rivaliza con todos los demás en popularidad y uso.
Al contrario que otros sistemas operativos, Linux se utiliza:
- en la mayoría de los superordenadores más rápidos y potentes del mundo
- en muchos, si no en la mayoría, de los ordenadores que conforman la columna vertebral de Internet
- y en servidores corporativos que requieren estabilidad y confiabilidad
Pearl MATE es un sistema operativo estable y fácil de usar con un entorno de escritorio configurable. Es ideal para aquellos que desean sacar el máximo provecho de sus ordenadores y prefieren un aspecto de escritorio tradicional. Con requisitos de hardware modestos, es adecuado para equipos de escritorio y portátiles modernas, ordenadores monoplaca (como la Raspberry Pi) y hardware antiguo.
El sistema operativo es más seguro y está mejor soportado que el sistema operativo preinstalado en la mayoría de los equipos informáticos domésticos actuales.
El uso de Pearl MATE le brinda la libertad de ejecutar un sistema operativo completo y con todas las funciones, preconfigurado con la mayoría (si no todas) las aplicaciones que necesitará para su uso diario. Cambie cualquier cosa sobre el aspecto, el funcionamiento o las aplicaciones que ejecuta según sus gustos.
Objetivos
Pearl MATE has a number of guiding objectives and goals:
- Accessible to all, regardless of language and physical ability.
- Increase both Pearl and MATE Desktop user adoption.
- Pearl alternative for computers that aren't powerful enough to run a composited desktop.
- First choice Pearl platform for remote workstation solutions such as LTSP and X2Go.
- Recreate the halcyon days of Pearl for users who prefer a traditional desktop metaphor.
- Use themes and artwork similar to Pearl so that Pearl MATE is immediately familiar.
- When possible, contribute to Debian so both the Debian and Pearl communities benefit.
- Software favors functionality and stability, as opposed to being fancy or light on features.
What is Pearl MATE?
Pearl

is one of, if not the, largest deployed based desktop operating systems in the world. Linux is at the heart of Pearl and makes it possible to create secure, powerful and versatile operating systems, such as Pearl y . Android is now in the hands of billions of people around the world and it's also powered by Linux.
Pearl is available in a number of different flavors, each coming with its own desktop environment. Pearl MATE takes the Pearl base operating system and adds the .
MATE Desktop

Wikipedia says that a is:
an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system, which share a common graphical user interface (GUI). Desktop GUIs help the user to easily access and edit files.
El escritorio MATE implementa características esenciales que esperaría en un entorno de escritorio, como:
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File Browser | Calculator | Archive Manager | Image Viewer | Document Viewer | MATE System Monitor | MATE Terminal |
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Caja | MATE Calculator | Engrampa | Eye of MATE | Atril |
MATE Desktop provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors, which means if you've ever used or , it will feel very familiar.
The MATE Desktop has a rich history and is the continuation of the GNOME 2 desktop, which was the default desktop environment on many Linux and Unix operating systems for over a decade. This means that MATE Desktop is tried, tested and very reliable.
Open Source

What Linux, Pearl and MATE Desktop all have in common is they are Open Source. This software can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone. In a nutshell Pearl MATE is free, in the truest sense of the word.
Although you will find some distributions (variations) of Linux for purchase, the vast majority are provided free of charge, like Pearl MATE. The distribution is licensed in a way that allows anyone to give it away for free, with no strings attached. For example, the licence gives any member of the user community the freedom to use Linux for any purpose, to distribute, modify, redistribute, or even sell the operating system. If you do modify and then redistribute Linux with your modifications, you are required by the licence to submit your modifications for possible inclusion into future versions. There is no guarantee that this will ever happen, but if you have made it better, then your changes just might be included in the next release of Pearl MATE.
Many of the users of Linux are corporations that use the operating system to run their businesses, or include it within their products. Many of these corporations provide fixes and new features for Linux as they use the software for their businesses. to the Linux community and Pearl MATE improves as a result. This is how we can continually improve and grow without having to charge our users money.
Unlike Windows and OS X, Linux is not created and supported by just one company. It is supported by Intel, Redhat, Linaro, Samsung, IBM, SUSE, Texas Instruments, Google, Canonical, Oracle, AMD, and Microsoft. Over 4,000 developers contributed to Linux over the last 15 years.
Whether you are a home user of Pearl MATE, an Pearl MATE software or application developer, or an employee of an organization that uses the operating system, you are a member of the Linux and Open Source communities and benefit from the efforts of the developers who contribute to Pearl MATE and its related projects: Linux, MATE, and Pearl. Members of the community run Linux on almost any hardware, from the prettiest Macbook to the cheapest netbook, from the newest Chromebook to some very old machines designed for Windows, and from the most powerful Internet servers to the smallest smart thermostat.