14 DAY TRIAL // Black Lab Software's CEO Robert J. Dohnert has informed Softpedia today about the availability of the second Beta development milestone of the upcoming Black Lab Linux 8 "Onyx" operating systems.
Black Lab Linux 8 "Onyx" Beta 2 is here approximately three weeks after the launch of the first Beta build, and it adds a few local applications, among which we can mention the Abiword word processor, Gnumeric spreadsheet editor, Rhythmbox music player, Totem video player, GIMP image editor, Chromium web browser, and Thunderbird e-mail and news client. OpenJDK 8 (Java support) is available as well.
"Our team is continuously dedicated to bringing you the best Linux desktop - Black Lab is and will continue to be the standard bearer, introducing cutting-edge features without sacrificing usability and stability or a unique, intuitive desktop interface," says Robert J. Dohnert in the release announcement. "This brings us one step closer to the stable release of Black Lab 8 due in late November."
Full XFS and exFAT support
Based on the Linux 4.2 kernel packages that are being used in the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system, Black Lab Linux 8 "Onyx" Beta 2 introduces full support for the XFS and exFAT filesystems, along with various web apps, such as Google Maps, Google Hangouts, YouTube, Google Photos, Google Contacts, and Google Translate.
Being based on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS, this second Beta development milestone of the Black Lab Linux 8 operating system also includes all the security updates that have been released upstream as of September 3, 2016. If you want to test this version, we invite you to download the Black Lab Linux 8 Beta 2 64-bit ISO image right now via our website, and don't forget to report issues if you encounter any.