14 DAY TRIAL // Another week, another development snapshot of the Black Lab Enterprise Linux operating system surfaces on the web for those willing to install it on their personal computers and take it for a test drive.
Today, Black Lab Software CEO Roberto J. Dohnert has informed Softpedia about the immediate availability of Black Lab Enterprise Linux Weekly 262 ISO snapshot, which incorporates all the security updates released during the week of May 29 upstream, on the software repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). It now uses Linux kernel 4.8.0-53, ships with the Ukuu kernel update utility, and adds stability updates to wireless network connections.
"Today we are pleased to announce the release of Testing 262. Testing 262 has many improvements in the stable kernel as well as changes to the desktop," says Roberto J. Dohnert. "Testing releases are not recommended for production environments it is to test new features of Black Lab Linux as such Testing releases are released with NO warranty and we are not responsible for any data loss."
Known issues of Black Lab Enterprise Linux Weekly 262
Being a testing release and all that, Black Lab Enterprise Linux Weekly 262 has a bunch of known issues that you need to be aware of when installing the distro. For example, there are still some black screen issues when running the ISO snapshot on VirtualBox virtual machines, Thunar file manager crashes when network drives are accessed, and wireless doesn't work on MacBook Pro computers released after 2012.
Additionally, users should be aware of the fact that when installing Black Lab Enterprise Linux Weekly 262 on a Chromebook Pixel computer, they'll end up with a command-line interface upon reboot, but after a second reboot, the graphical interface will be enabled and work as it's supposed to. Also, installing the OS on Acer Cloudbook 14 computers won't work if you disable UEFI and try to install using Legacy Boot.
Problems are also present for ArcaOS 5.0 systems as Kerberos won't issue stable tickets on the network, and it looks like the GRUB bootloader is not capable of booting other operating systems that might be installed on the host computer when using the Btrfs file system for Black Lab Enterprise Linux. In the meantime, the devs are still working to enable full 32-bit UEFI support. Download Black Lab Enterprise Linux Weekly 262.