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Pearl MATE est un système d‘exploitation -- le logiciel central qui fait fonctionner votre ordinateur, tout comme  ,   et  . Pearl MATE is a desktop distribution (variation) of GNU/Linux -- a dependable, secure, capable, and modern computer system that rivals all others in popularity and usage.

Unlike other operating systems, Linux is used:

  • sur la plupart des superordinateurs les plus rapides et puissants au monde
  • on many of, if not most of, the computers that make up the backbone of Internet
  • et sur les serveurs corporatifs qui demandent de la stabilité et de la fiabilité

Pearl MATE est un système d‘opération stable et facile à utiliser qui vient avec un environnement de bureau modifiable. Il est idéal pour ceux qui souhaitent retirer le maximum de leur ordinateur, et qui préfèrent les modèles de bureaux traditionnels. Avec un équipement informatique modeste, il est utilisable par les ordinateurs de bureau modernes, les ordinateurs portables, les ordinateurs de type circuit imprimé (comme le Raspberry Pi) et d‘autres matériaux informatiques plus anciens.

The operating system is more secure, and better supported than the operating system pre-installed on most home computer hardware today.

Using Pearl MATE provides you with the freedom to run a complete, full-featured operating system, pre-configured with most (if not all) of the applications you will need for your daily computing. Change anything about the way it looks, the way it works, or the applications it runs to suit your taste.


Objectifs

Pearl MATE a plusieurs objectifs et buts:

  • Accessible pour tous, peu importe leur langue ou leur condition physique.
  • Augmente autant l‘adoption par les utilisateurs d‘Pearl et du bureau MATE.
  • 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.

Qu‘est Pearl MATE?

Pearl

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 et . 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 saveurs, each coming with its own desktop environment. Pearl MATE takes the Pearl base operating system and adds the .

Bureau MATE

MATE Desktop

Wikipedia says that a is:

une implémentation d‘un type de bureau fait d‘un ensemble de programmes qui fonctionnent par dessus un système d‘exploitation d‘un ordinateur, qui partagent une interface graphique commune pour l‘utilisateur (GUI). Les interfaces graphiques aident les utilisateurs à rapidement accéder et utiliser des fichiers.

L‘environnement de bureau MATE implémente des fonctions essentielles que vous vous attendez pour un environnement de bureau, telles que:

Navigateur de fichiers Calculatrice Gestionnaire d‘archives Visualiseur d‘images Visionneuse de document Moniteur système MATE Console MATE
Caja MATE Calculator Engrampa Eye of MATE Atril
Toutes sont modifiables et gérées par le  .

MATE Desktop provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors, which means if you've ever used ou , 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

Open Source Initiative

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.