Black Lab Linux KDE For Linux

Black Lab Linux KDE is a custom edition of the Black Lab Linux operating system built around the KDE Plasma Workspaces and Applications desktop environment. It uses the same solid Ubuntu base that is used with success in the main Black Lab Linux edition.

It can be downloaded via Softpedia or from its official homepage (see link above) as a single Live DVD ISO image of approximately 2GB in size, designed to support only 64-bit (x86_64) hardware platforms. Please note that you must write the ISO image to a DVD disc or USB flash drive of 2GB or higher capacity in order to boot it from the BIOS of a PC.

Being based on Ubuntu, the distro comes with a standard boot prompt that allows the user to boot the live environment with default options or in safe graphics mode, directly start the installer, run the Memtest86+ utility to check the RAM for errors, as well as to boot an existing operating system from the first disk.

As mentioned, the default and only desktop environment of this operating system is KDE Plasma, which uses a standard layout comprised of a single taskbar located on the bottom edge of the screen, from where you can quickly launch applications or interact with running programs and the functions implemented in the system tray area.

The system includes various open source and useful applications, among which we can mention the Muon Software Center, Muon Package Installer, GIMP image editor, Chromium web browser, Steam for Linux client, Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client (with the Lightning calendar extension), Digikam image viewer, Krusader FTP client, Dropbox file sharing client, LibreOffice office suite, VLC Media Player, and JuK audio player.

In conclusion, the KDE edition of Black Lab Linux looks like a great operating system that features some of the best open source applications and utilizes the latest Ubuntu technologies.