Black Lab Linux Professional Desktop 6.5 Beta 1 Released

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of Black Lab Linux Professional Desktop 6.5 beta 1.  This is an upcoming look at the future version of the Black Lab Linux Pro series.  With this release we include over 300 bug fixes as well as kernel updates.  We also worked on presentation and functionality.  All of the important bug fixes and application updates can be viewed in our release notes which can be viewed or downloaded here.

Release Notes

Here is a short list of the immediate visible updates that we have provided.

GNOME Classic as the default desktop.  Due to customer demand we enabled GNOME Classic by default because of customer demand, as well as to increase familiarity with those used to using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux and CentOS.  It also helps to improve performance for terminal service users.

For those wanting a more traditional desktop interface we provide the XFCE user interface as an integration desktop.  This has the latest XFCE user interface and is the full XFCE interface.  It has not been cut down and is selectable from the login screen.

kernel 3.16 is the default kernel upon boot

Signed Linux kernels are provided for use on UEFI/Secureboot enabled systems.

You can download the Black Lab Linux Professional Desktop 6.5 Beta 1 from Sourceforge.  This is a Beta release and is not meant to be used in a production environment.  There is no warranty either expressed or implied with this release.

Black Lab Linux Professional Desktop 6.5 Beta 1 x86_64