Black Lab Linux 8 "Onyx" Beta 2 Has Full exFAT Support, Based on Ubuntu 14.04.5 | Linux Today

Black Lab Linux 8 “Onyx” Beta 2 Has Full exFAT Support, Based on Ubuntu 14.04.5

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Marius Nestor
Sep 8, 2016

Black Lab Linux 8 “Onyx” Beta 2 is here approximately three weeks after the launch of the first Beta build and it adds a few local applications, among which we can mention the Abiword word processor, Gnumeric spreadsheet editor, Rhythmbox music player, Totem video player, GIMP image editor, Chromium web browser, and Thunderbird e-mail and news client. OpenJDK 8 (Java support) is available as well. Based on the Linux 4.2 kernel packages that are being used in the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system, Black Lab Linux 8 “Onyx” Beta 2 introduces full support for the XFS and exFAT filesystems, along with various web apps, such as Google Maps, Google Hangouts, YouTube, Google Photos, Google Contacts, and Google Translate.

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Marius Nestor

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