14 DAY TRIAL // Black Lab Software's Roberto J. Dohnert has informed Softpedia today about the immediate availability of yet another weekly ISO snapshot of the Black Lab Enterprise Linux operating system, version 261.
You might have heard the big news earlier this month that the Black Lab Enterprise Linux 11 operating system was launched as the latest stable release of the Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and its Linux 4.8 kernel.
The biggest change, however, was the use of the GNOME desktop by default, but at the request of many users, Black Lab Software also released Xfce and MATE flavors of the distro. Two weeks later, the team announced that they were dropping the GNOME desktop in favor of the MATE desktop.
What's new in Black Lab Enterprise Linux Testing build 261
The Black Lab Enterprise Linux Testing build 261 is here to upgrade the kernel packages to version 4.8.0-53 from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, include the build-essential package by default, as well as the OpenVPN utility, improve the installer, fix a black screen issue with VMWare, and add YUM and RPM support.
"Back from a grueling two weeks of major releases of our products, today we are releasing Testing build 261 of Black Lab Enterprise Linux. These testing builds are a snapshot of new releases and are not recommended for production use," said Roberto J. Dohnert, Black Lab Software CEO, in today's release announcement.
Other than the above, Black Lab Enterprise Linux Testing build 261 also comes with the Ukuu utility for testing different mainline kernels, the latest Chromium 58 web browser, and the Vivacious icon set by default. You can download the Black Lab Enterprise Linux Testing build 261 ISO snapshot right now from here, but please note that it's a development build, not to be installed on a production machine.