LibreOffice 5.2 and Mozilla Firefox 49.0 are included

Sep 26, 2016 23:30 GMT  ·  By

Softpedia was informed today, September 26, 2016, by Black Lab Software's CEO Robert J. Dohnert about the availability of the third Beta development snapshot of the upcoming Black Lab Linux 8 GNU/Linux operating system.

Black Lab Linux 8 "Onyx" Beta 3 is here approximately three weeks after the second Beta pre-release and it comes with a major change. It is no longer based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), as the development team decided to switch base and move to the next Ubuntu LTS version, namely Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus).

"The development team is pleased to announce the new Beta release of Black Lab Linux 8 - our latest OS offering to bring the best Linux desktop distribution currently on the market. This release moves the kernel and application set away from the prior LTS 14.04 base to the new 16.04 LTS base," says Robert J. Dohnert.

Full EFI support, up-to-date software packages

Backed by three popular desktop environments, namely GNOME 3, MATE, and LXDE, Black Lab Linux 8 Beta 3 is powered by the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel packages of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and comes with up-to-date components and applications, including the LibreOffice 5.2 office suite and Mozilla Firefox 49.0 web browser.

However, this new Beta build also ships with full EFI support, complete multimedia codec support, and some of the most popular open source apps, including the Mozilla Thunderbird email and news client, GNOME Video multimedia player, Rhythmbox music player, and GIMP image editor.

If you want to take the third Beta version of Black Lab Linux 8 "Onyx" for a test drive, please don't hesitate to download the Live ISO images with either the GNOME 3, MATE, or LXDE desktops right now via our website. However, please try to be aware of the known issues laid down by the developers in the official release announcement.