Black Lab Linux OS out with its latest 32-bit KDE version

32-bit support for operating systems is coming to an end all over the world. But the Black Lab Linux development team has chosen to buck the trend. The developers have announced on Twitter that they have released a fresh 32-bit version of the KDE-based distribution, which will support installations of the Black Lab Linux KDE Edition 6.0 SR1 operating system on low-end computers with older hardware components. The tweet reads, “Black Lab Linux 32 bit is released. Min. requirements: 32-bit processor with PAE support, 768MB of RAM, 10GB HD, https://sourceforge. net/projects/os4online/files/Rel6/...” Until now, Black Lab Linux has always distributed 64-bit images. Both the 64bit and 32-bit images are based on the Kubuntu 14.04 LTS operating system and built around the KDE Applications 4.14.2 graphical desktop environment.

The 32-bit Black Lab Linux KDE version looks completely different from the 64-bit variant. It uses a lightweight theme for the desktop, a slim Start menu and gorgeous wallpaper. The packages are optimised only for 32-bit computers. The preinstalled open source applications are the same on both ISO images, though. Users will be able to browse using Mozilla Firefox, view and organise photo albums with digiKam and edit images with the GIMP. This version has the Pidgin messaging client, the Steam for Linux gaming engine, the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, the movie player Dragon Player and the office suite LibreOffice.

Those with a 32-bit processor with Physical Address Extension support, 768MB RAM and 10GB disk space can use the Black Lab Linux KDE 32-bit operating system.