Today we are
releasing our Public Beta 1 of Black Lab Education Desktop 6.0.1.
Black Lab Education Desktop 6.0.1 is a revolutionary new design of
the Black Lab Linux desktop for education environments and is
tailored for those environments. Based on the same technologies that
make up our Black Lab Professional Desktop series we offer the same
longevity and support that our enterprise customers have come to
expect. Black Lab Education Desktop 6.0.1 is supported by us until
April 2022.
The feature set for
Black Lab Education Desktop 6.0.1 is unique among other education
based distributions. We offer features for K-12, Pre-K as well as
college level environments meaning that no matter the level that you
teach, you have the same featureset, power and customization options
that enterprise customers and Linux enthusiasts have come to expect.
So here is the package lineup for the Public Beta of the Black Lab
Education Desktop.
1. GNOME3 – Our
heavily customized and lightweight functionality that Black Lab Linux
6 users have.
2. LibreOffice
3. Wine 1.7
4. Firefox 33
5. Thunderbird Suite
including calendar functionality as well as translation utilities
6. Nitroshare –
For sharing files among the classroom
7. Synergy – This
allows teacher to actually take control of the students desktops and
perform valuable education tasks
8. Ardesia Desktop
Sketching – This allows teachers and presenters to use their own
computer screen as a whiteboard
9. Callibre ebook
management – This allows for quick deployment of etextbooks as well
as distribution of reading materials
10. Tux Education
Suite – Tux Paint, Tux Math, Tux Typing tutor and Tux Notes
11. Celestia
12. Timeshift
System Backup and Restore – This feature allows administrators and
teachers to restore school desktops should they be made into an
unstable state
13. VLC
14. Audacious
15. GMTP for syncing
files among android tablets, Kindle Fire HD/HDX and Barnes and Noble
Nooks
16. GIMP
17. Scribus
18. Wine 1.7
19. Fogger Webapp
Utility
20. Weather
21. World Clock
22. Simple Screen
Recorder
23. Gcompris Suite
24. Springseed Note
application
25. Kinect and
Wiimote support
Among these all
security updates up to Oct 27, 2014 have been applied. Black Lab SDK
1.8 is fully compatible with this system as is Google Chrome and the
Opera Web Browser.
Our goal by offering
a public beta is to continue to provide the best of breed education
based distribution and we hope you guys will help us do that.
You can download the
Public Beta from our Sourceforge Page but do keep in mind that it is
2.5 GB's to download.
You can also
purchase a copy if you are bandwidth restricted for $35.00 +
Shipping. Black Lab Education Desktop will also be available
pre-loaded on hardware and upon request on preloaded hard drives by
certified education facilities.
