guiverc:
The future is still being written, Ubuntu MATE is still an official flavor of Ubuntu so nothing thus far has changed, none of us know what will change though, and Ubuntu 26.10 & later could be somewhat different to what I understand anyway.
Anyone watching the Ubuntu MATE Development Matrix communications channel will see this future playing out... ie. keys of the kingdom being handed over to new stewards .
I'll also quote from Ubuntu Discourse
Ubuntu MATE is not gone, I’m just stepping back.
Since putting out the request for new maintainers, two upstream MATE Desktop developers and one Ubuntu community contributor have contacted me expressing interest in keeping the project going, and we’re currently figuring out how to hand things over.
For those who
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Ubuntu MATE, that has to be great news I feel.