| Fedora-based single-CD distro goes gold |
Jul. 14, 2006
The UK-based BLAG (for Brixton Linux Action Group) project on July 10 released BLAG 50000, a single-CD, Fedora-based Linux distribution with multimedia support and extra applications, spokesman and developer Jeff Moe said. The new version is built on top of a 2.6.17 Linux kernel and uses the GNOME desktop.
BLAG is based on Fedora Core 5, and reduced to one CD. It includes useful applications missing from Fedora Core (e.g. mp3, p2p, apt, etc.), as well as a suite of graphics, Internet, audio, video, office, and peer-to-peer file sharing applications. The name stands for Brixton Linux Action Group, which works to overthrow corporate control of information and technology through community action and to spread free software, Moe said.
BLAG 50000 is the project's fourth distribution release, a series which began with BLAG 30001 in August 2005. It is an installation CD only.
"BLAG 50000 (code-named 'Grass') is based on Fedora Core 5 and uses packages from Extras, FreshRPMS, Dries, and ATrpms," Moe said in the release announcement. "It [also] includes all Fedora updates as of time of release."
Additional key features in BLAG 5000 are said to include:- glibc 2.4
- X.Org 7.0
- GNOME 2.14.1
- Firefox 1.5.0.4
- the latest GNOME Office suite
- and a collection of multimedia applications, codecs, and libraries
New CD packages include airtraf, cinelerra, evince, fluxbox, gentium-fonts, gnome-ppp, gnome-translate, gnupg2, gonvert, gpodder, gqview, various gstreamer-plugins, pirut, really-little-guys, skencil, and wpa_supplicant.
BLAG is up-to-date with all Fedora errata fixes at time of release and uses synaptic for easy upgrades, Moe said.
You can download your own copy of the 683-MB iso here. The CD image is also available for download via BitTorrent.
OSDir.com has some screen shots here.
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