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Black Lab Linux GNOME 2015.6 Is Still Based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Supported Until 2020

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Marius Nestor
Jun 16, 2015

Probably the most important change in this release is the new versioning scheme. Softpedia was informed by Mr. Dohnert a few weeks ago that upcoming releases of the Black Lab Linux distributions will drop the regular 6.x or 7.x version numbers in favor of a new scheme composed of the current year and month, which tends to become more popular among software distributors.

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Marius Nestor

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