Black Lab Linux Professional Desktop 6.5 Beta 1 Officially Released

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Marius Nestor
Feb 27, 2015

At the users’ request, Black Lab Linux Professional Desktop 6.5 Beta 1 now uses GNOME Classic as the default desktop environment, making the operating system more familiar for those who want to migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS or Oracle Linux. The distribution is now powered by Linux kernel 3.16, supporting UEFI/Secure Boot enabled systems.

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Marius Nestor

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