BLAG50002 release

hi lwn

please find following a revised release document for BLAG50002.

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BLAG50002 (mendoza)
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The second update to the Fedora Core 5 based, single-CD, 100% Free distro has
been released.

Highlights for this release are the latest kernel [2.6.17-1.2187_FC5], the
'promotion' of bitlbee [1.0.3] and irssi [0.8.10] from the repo onto the main
CD and updates to such major packages as firefox [1.5.0.7 -- with BLAG's unique
set of activist and independent media bookmarks], gimp [2.2.13], inkscape
[0.44.1], scribus [1.2.5], thunderbird [1.5.0.7] and xchat [2.6.6].

BLAG continues to have range of tools and software for the desktop user, media
activist and those searching for the properly 'free' GNU/Linux experience. This
includes BLASTERISK -- the free BLAG telephone service for Free Software users,
developers and Indymedia activists.

New to the CD
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bitlbee -- http://bitlbee.org/
An IRC to other chat networks gateway application. It allows you to do instant
messaging in your IRC client of choice. Plays very well with irssi.

irssi -- http://irssi.org/
A terminal-based IRC client. Plays very well with bitlbee.

BLAG -- it makes you want to go `cat /etc/blag-release`.

Community
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  http://www.blagblagblag.org/ BLAG Website
  http://forums.blagblagblag.org/ BLAG Forums
  http://wiki.blagblagblag.org/ BLAG Documentation
  http://bugzilla.blagblagblag.org/ BLAG Bugzilla
  irc://irc.indymedia.org/ #blag

Coming soon
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The return of the BLAG-style list [or is it lists?].

Download the CD image
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  http://www.blagblagblag.org/torrents/BLAG-50002.iso.torrent
  ftp://ftp.blagblagblag.org/pub/BLAG/linux/50000/en/iso/BL...
  http://www.blagblagblag.org/50000/iso/BLAG-50002.iso

Downloadable versions of SRPM CDs and DVDs are also available.

Please use the torrents if you can.

All the in-depth stuff
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BLAG is a Free Software (open source) GNU/Linux distribution.

BLAG is a single-CD distro with everything desktop users "expect" from a
desktop, plus a collection of nice server apps.

The 50000 series of BLAG releases is based on Fedora Core 5 and uses packages
from Extras, FreshRPMS, Dries, Livna, and ATrpms. It includes all Fedora
updates as of time of release.

Other updates in this release include: apt [0.5.15], audacity [1.2.4], bind
[9.3.2], cups [1.2.3], glibc [2.4.11], gnomebaker [0.6.0], gpodder [0.8.0],
graveman [0.3.12.5], kino [0.9.2], liferea [1.0.23], openssh [4.3p2], openssl
[0.9.8a], streamripper [1.16.27] and synaptic [0.57.2].

Overall, seven new packages were added and 88 were updated.

Full changelog: http://www.blagblagblag.org/50000/Changelog

Version roadmap: http://wiki.blagblagblag.org/Roadmap


best wishes
r7
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r7 [at] aktivix [dot] org