Originally posted by abu_shawarib
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For very large software (i.e a desktop environments, Xorg, etc) consisting of *multiple* projects, you will find that very few distros have a package that exactly matches a concept of a release. Usually it will have platform specific patches, backports, etc. Then each of the individual components will all be at different versions.
A website with a "release" binary (which is what woddy was clearly referring to) is fairly redundant.
As an example, what "release" would you say Xorg was at? X11R7 was the last release which is meaningless. The current version is 21.1.13. Same concept applies to Mate.
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