Future of Black Lab Image Creator

Unless we have donations pick up to continue development we will be terminating the Black Lab Image Creator project on Sept 1, 2016.

Systemd support

We have got preliminary Systemd support working.  It will build 15.04 and 15.10 with Ubuntu and Xubuntu.  We will wait for the 16.04 line to stabilize a little before we start testing.

UEFI support

Black Lab Image Creator now has FULL UEFI support so you can now respin Ubuntu, Black Lab Linux, Linux Mint with Full UEFI support.  We also have PARTIAL Systemd support, so that will be a little tricky.  If you would like to help us test Systemd support and you are a contributor drop me a line.  We will be getting out Black Lab Image Creator with UEFI to paying customers within the next 2 weeks.

Thanks

Extending the holiday sale

We decided to extend the holiday sale for 2 weeks.  So instead of the second, you can get Black Lab Image Creator for $20.00 USD until January 16, 2015.  Thats a savings of $30.00 USD plus free lifetime updates, get it today.

"The Package is of bad quality:" Error Message

It has come to our attention that some users are having an issue when installing with Ubuntu Software Center that they are getting a message "The Package is of bad quality:  The installation of a package which violates the quality standards isn't allowed. This could cause serious problems on your computer. Please contact the person or organisation who provided this package file and include the details beneath."

The Ubuntu Software Center uses a program called Lintian and lintian If the package doesn't meet the Debian policy, then it is considered to be of a poor quality.

This does not mean that the package is bad.  And you can install it using gdebi,  

sudo apt-get install gdebi 

and you can right click the deb file and install with Gdebi.  Or you can install via the command line using

sudo dpkg -i blacklabimager15.deb 

It doesnt like the way we set the file permissions and the problem happens because the build script has to be set to a certain permission and  marked executable otherwise it falls on the user to go through and set the permissions.

But there is no issue with the package quality.  The Ubuntu software Center is doing its job and pretty much and flagging packages that are not administered via the software center.

More information on this issue plaguing other packages can be found here

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/how-to-install-deb-files-when-getting.html

And more information on Lintian can be found here

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/lintian.1.html

We are working on this to correct the problem with the Lintian checker.

Black Friday and cybermonday sales

Ok guys, today is the day. Instead of waiting for hours in a line at a store. Give the gift of Black Lab Linux. Installable media or on a preinstalled hard drives. just slap in the hard drive, boot up and instant Black Lab Linux. Get it today, all the way up to December 2nd

http://www.pc-opensystems.com/2014/11/black-friday-and-cybermonday-sales.html

Black Lab Image Creator and the holidays

For this holiday season, and it starts today and lasts until the first of the year, January 2, 2015.  If you donate $20.00 USD to help support the Black Lab Image Creator project, you will get the install deb and the source code for Black Lab Image Creator. 

If you need the remastersys source code that is also $20.00 USD until the end of the holiday season.