Today we are pleased
to announce the release of Black Lab Linux for Enterprise 5.0.3 and
Black Lab Linux for Education 5.0.3.
Black Lab Linux for Enterprise and Black Lab Linux for Education are commercially supported Linux distributions targeted towards desktop computing. While other Linux distributions focus on the server our sole focus is on the desktop. We have many customers who use Black Lab Linux in different industries. Science, education, law enforcement, music, film and warehouse.
With these releases
we bring some important major updates to the Black Lab Linux OS.
Although an incremental release we bring some changes. We once again
prove why Black Lab Linux is an important IT upgrade to your school
or business.
1. New streamlined
visual experience. We now use the KDE Desktop as the default desktop for both Enterprise and Education. The one thing we have done by listening to
customers is updated the UI to a more modern look and feel as well as
provide an experience that is familiar and will require much less
retraining than moving to Red Hat or any other Enterprise Linux
distribution.
2. Updated kernel.
We have updated the kernel to include drivers for a wider variety of
devices and systems. Point of Sale devices and systems. We have
greatly improved the driver support for users who want to run Black
Lab Linux on Point of Sale machines. We also support this kernel
until 2019.
3. Thunderbird
Suite has become more of a groupware suite than just a mail client.
We include full support for the Google Apps for Business line, we
also include a new translation utility so you can translate e-mails
sent to you in a different language to the language of your choice as
well as translating e-mails that you write to different languages.
We also support full calendar functionality.
4. Wine has been
updated so you can run many of your mission critical apps that are
written for Windows in Black Lab Linux. We have also made installing
those apps more convenient so users coming from Windows can install
their apps as easily as they do on the Windows platform.
5. Support for
Windows terminal services. We support the full line of Windows
Terminal Services through the use of the Remote Desktop Protocol as
well as through the Citrix client so users who have Windows Terminal
Servers can continue to run them or integrate Black Lab Linux into
their environment.
6. Command Line
install. We have included a command line installer for users who
want to install on a headless server or system.
7. New web app
support. We made creating web apps simple, painless and seamless
with the ICE utility from the PeppermintOS team. You just simply
enter the URL choose the menu where you would like it stored and hit
enter. This works for LAN based apps as well as web apps.
8. Support for new
app drawers. Are you tired of a cluttered taskbar? Simply create an
app drawer and drop all your commonly used applications in it. You
can download the how-to from here.
9. Support for
NVIDIA CUDA and Android development. We included all the
prerequisites and tuned Black Lab Linux for Enterprise for these
unique development environments. If you meet the hardware
requirements, Black Lab Linux can host the SDK's and you can begin
development at any time.
10. The Black Lab
SDK 1.7 is included which contains all development IDE's and tools
for developing in Java, Python, C++, ADA, Objective C, MONO, Fortran
, and PASCAL
We have also
included all updates to the system up to July 3, 2014. Black Lab
Linux for Education also contains all these great enhancements as
well as all critical updates for our educational programs included in
that distribution.
Pricing, we have
arranged pricing so we are affordable and competitive with Red Hat,
Oracle and SUSE. We offer 2 different unlimited subscription themes, one for education and the other for enterprise that allow you to install Black Lab Linux on as many systems as you would like. You can find out more about pricing and more information on the product page
With Black Lab Linux
for Enterprise and Black Lab Linux for Education you get a dedicated
team, as well as a focus on enterprise and educational desktop
computing that is unmatched in todays enterprise and education linux
markets. For more information on what our subscription service
provides please read the following datasheet.
Any question can be e-mailed to support@pc-opensystems.com
