If you don’t like the new Gnome, you can install the Mate Desktop Environment on your Fedora 17 Linux Box.
It is quite simple.
Step 1:
$ sudo yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-2.fc17.noarch.rpm
Step 2:
$ sudo yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop
This was it, to switch to Mate, reboot and choose Mate from the grafical menu at startup.
