The Chapeau project has unveiled Chapeau 24, latest stable release of Fedora based GNU/Linux distribution that provides out of the box multimedia, gaming support, and other usability improvements to make GNU/Linux more attractive for newbies.
Chapeau 24 is based on Fedora 24 and hence, you can expect all major features and bug fixes in Fedora 24 in Chapeau also. Also, to be fair the purpose of the project, the operating system comes with 3rd party repositories, multimedia codecs and packages like wine and Play On Linux to provide a better desktop experience.
The notable highlights in Chapeau 24 are:
Chapeau 24 is based on Fedora 24 and hence, you can expect all major features and bug fixes in Fedora 24 in Chapeau also. Also, to be fair the purpose of the project, the operating system comes with 3rd party repositories, multimedia codecs and packages like wine and Play On Linux to provide a better desktop experience.
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For more details, you may see release announcement in projects website.
- Derived from Fedora 24 Workstation
- Gnome 3.20 desktop environment
- LibreOffice 5
- PlayOnLinux & Wine
- Steam
- VLC
- Mozilla Firefox with Adobe Flash.
- Hardware Helper Tool (hht)
- RPMFusion software sources preconfigured
- Media codecs & DVD playback support
- Gnome Boxes
- KVM virtualisation ready to go
- Dropbox integration
- Transmission is bundled as the default torrent client
- nmap now included by default
- Includes 5 more lightweight games: Chess, Mines, Reversi, Neverball & Neverputt.
- Moving on from 23, Wayland is no longer explicitly disabled in GDM’s config
- More Chapeau wallpapers
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