Black Lab Linux 6.0 RELEASED

Posted by rjdohnert on Oct 27, 2014 5:49 AM EDT
Black Lab Linux Website; By Black Lab Linux Team
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Today we are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Black Lab Linux 6. Black Lab Linux 6 is the fruit of over a year of labor and brings about many exciting new features and some big changes to the Black Lab Linux platform. In Black Lab Linux 6 we focused on a few core improvements. Usability, by changing to a UI that has strong features, accessibility, and speed. We also have improved driver support and multimedia features that set Black Lab Linux apart from the rest.

Today we are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Black Lab Linux 6. Black Lab Linux 6 is the fruit of over a year of labor and brings about many exciting new features and some big changes to the Black Lab Linux platform. In Black Lab Linux 6 we focused on a few core improvements. Usability, by changing to a UI that has strong features, accessibility, and speed. We also have improved driver support and multimedia features that set Black Lab Linux apart from the rest. Black Lab Linux 6.0 has also improved how we deliver updates to our users. Being based on LTS technologies Black Lab Linux 6.0 is supported until April 2020. All incremental updates will be released via apt-get.

Black Lab Linux 6 has the following new features:

Ubuntu 14.04.1 Base GNOME 3 replaces XFCE as the default desktop Thunderbird 31.2 Firefox 33 AppGrid - an alternative app store available for Black Lab Linux TimeShift - A system restore feature for allowing full system backups Linux kernel 3.13.0-37, Kernel 3.17.1 is available as an easy to install script Abiword Gnumeric OpenShot GNOME PPP Steam Integration Pidgin GNOME Tweak tool integration Arista Transcoder VLC Cheese Audacity

Among these we have built in all security updates up to October 23, 2014.

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