Black Lab Linux 8.0 "Onyx" Alpha 4 Ready for Testing, Based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | Linux Today

Black Lab Linux 8.0 “Onyx” Alpha 4 Ready for Testing, Based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Marius Nestor
Jun 12, 2016

Black Lab Linux 8.0 “Onyx” has been in development for the past three months, based on the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system, which will reach end of life in April 2019. The fourth Alpha build arrives today with many updated software packages from the upstream Ubuntu 14.04 LTS repositories, including Linux kernel 4.2.0-36 and Chromium 50 web browser.

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Marius Nestor

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