Just recently we saw a beta release of the new "Cinnarch"--which adds the traditionally flavored Cinnamon desktop to Arch Linux--as well as the GNOME project's announcement that the classic GNOME 2 desktop is coming back by popular demand.
Now, this beta version of Fedora 18 adds a MATE option for the first time, giving users the ability to get a classic interface through this GNOME 2 fork.
GNOME 3.6 serves as the default desktop in Fedora 18, but updates have also been made to the KDE, Xfce, and Sugar desktop environments.
Given that it's still a beta version, this new Fedora 18 release is not intended for production environments, of course. If you're interested in checking it out or helping to test it, however, it's available now as a free download.
