Chapeau

Chapeau is a high-performance, cutting-edge operating system built from the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution with the Gnome desktop environment.

Compared to Fedora Chapeau adopts an enhanced user experience and a more relaxed approach to software licences and is intended to be just as useful for advanced users as it is easy for those new to using a Linux system.
There is built-in access to third-party software & sources repositories not included in Fedora such as RPMFusion, Steam, Adobe Flash, Dropbox & Oracle VirtualBox.

Chapeau also includes system tools that makes your live DVD or USB disk a handy portable toolkit for repairing Linux and Windows installations as well as a general purpose desktop distro.

Chapeau is available for 64bit x86 PCs.

Features

Derived from Fedora 24 Workstation
Gnome 3.20 desktop environment
Installable live boot image for USB disks & DVDs
Steam
VLC
Gnome Music & Rhythmbox
Mozilla Firefox with Adobe Flash plugin
Dropbox integration for Nautilus
Gnome Calendar
Gnome Maps
Gnome Documents
Gnome Books
PlayOnLinux & Wine
Media codecs & DVD playback support
LibreOffice
Shotwell & Darktable photography applications
Openshot video editor
GIMP (single window mode by default)
Bijiben (replacing Gnote)
Hardware Helper Tool
MPRIS media player integration into Gnome 3
'Caffeine' Gnome extension quickly toggles Gnome's screensaver & power saving features
Gnome Software & Yumex
Gnome Disks & Gparted
Gnome Boxes (create & manage virtual machines and remote host connections)
Qemu & KVM virtualisation ready to go
Clam AV (usable from the live image)
Broadcom chipset support
Support for 7zip & RAR archives
RPMFusion software sources preconfigured
VirtualBox software source preconfigured
Many advanced system tools (screen, tmux, testdisk, chntpw, ncat, nmap, htop, iotop, powertop, stress and more)
Install third-party drivers for Nvidia GPUs and Nvidia Optimus systems with just a few mouse clicks

Project Samples

Easily run Windows software with PlayOnLinux

Gnome Music, Rhythmbox and Gnome panel integration

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Gnome

Registered

2013-12-16

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