14 DAY TRIAL // Vince Pooley, the founder of the Chapeau project, had the great pleasure of announcing today, June 13, the immediate availability for download of the final release of the Chapeau 22 Linux operating system.
Based on the Fedora 22 Workstation distribution and built around the latest GNOME 3.16 desktop environment Chapeau 22 is dubbed Indurain and comes with gorgeous artwork based on the Moka and Faba themes, the latest open-source software and technologies, and numerous attractive features that are not present in the upstream Fedora 22 Linux distro.
Prominent features of Chapeau 22 include the latest versions of the Mozilla Firefox, LibreOffice, VLC Media Player, Wine, PlayOnLinux, Steam for Linux, and GNOME Boxes applications, the addition of the GNOME Calendar, GNOME Photos, GNOME Books, GNOME Power Manager, and systemadm apps, as well as new wallpapers.
Moreover, the Pitivi video editor software has been replaced with OpenShot, Adobe Flash Player plugin has been added to the default web browser, the RPMFusion software sources are now preconfigured, and the official Dropbox client has been integrated. Check out the attached gallery for more details.
While the Fedora 22 Workstation uses Wayland for the login screen, Chapeau 22 defaults to the X11 display server, disabling the Wayland session. Also, the distribution includes out-of-the-box support for multimedia playback and software virtualization based on KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine).
DNF is now the default package manager
Being based on Fedora 22, the new Chapeau 22 release inherits some of its Linux technologies, such as the brand-new DNF package manager that replaces the old-school YUM tool, and Linux kernel 4.0. Of course, DNF can be used to install, update and remove packages from a Chapeau installation.
"Chapeau includes access to software repositories from other projects. At the time of release the Korora 22 rpm repository used for pulling updates of the Pharlap application is not yet available," says Vince Pooley. "Because of this, if using dnf on the command-line you will notice a warning for this repository until it becomes available."
The latest version of the distribution also borrows some elements from the Korora distribution, such as Pharlap, a utility that allows users to install proprietary drivers. Download Chapeau 22 Linux right now from Softpedia, where you will find Live DVD ISO images only for 64-bit hardware architectures.
