BLAG Linux And GNU
by the
Brixton Linux Action Group

9002


BLAG9002 has been released: BLAG Free Software.


Grab it from one of these locations:

 ftp://ftp.blagblagblag.org/pub/BLAG/linux/9000/en/iso/BLAG-9002.iso
 http://www.blagblagblag.org/9000/iso/BLAG-9002.iso
 http://www.blagblagblag.org/9000/BLAG-9002.torrent



BLAG9002 (trike) is a significant update of BLAG9001. The major changes are lots of RedHat updates (kernel, XFree86, apache), many BLAG package updates, and piles of new packages.


BLAG Resources
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 http://www.blagblagblag.org BLAG Website
 http://www.blagblagblag.org/docs BLAG Documentation
 http://wiki.blagblagblag.org BLAG Wiki
 http://www.blagblagblag.org/mailinglist BLAG mailing list
 http://ldp.blagblagblag.org BLAG Linux Documentation
 http://bugzilla.blagblagblag.org BLAG Bugzilla


A bit of the New (for 9002)
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XFce
A new desktop, XFce, is now on the CD. It is lightweight, but user friendly and cute.

wireless
BLAG now includes more wireless kernel drivers so more gear works out-of-the-box. Airsnort & airtraf have been added.

modems
Winmodem drivers (hsf, ltmodem, slmodem) added.

disk utils
ddrescue & partimage

BLAG is now working with DAG and the mega-merge project to make BLAG compatible with more public software repositories. BLAG includes DAG packages directly.




BLAG9000 Series Features
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BLAG is a single CD GNU/Linux distribution based on RedHat 9. It includes everything a desktop user would "expect" on a system and more. It has common server packages and handy utils that admins like.



Automajick installs
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Four categories: miniblag, deskblag, serverblag, and blagblagblag
allow you to install the distro without having to answer /any/ questions or configure anything.

Hit F6 at boot: for more details. It will auto-erase your system.

miniblag is the smallest install at less than 350 Megs.
deskblag installs a Gnome desktop with all the typical apps
serverblag installs all the server daemons but no GUI
blagblagblag installs everything on the CD


Automajick upgrades from CD
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Type "upgrade" at the "boot:" prompt of the CD.



Package Management
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rpm - RedHat Package Manager
apt - Great way to automatically update your system. You can update
a BLAG9001 install to 9002 using apt:
apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade
synaptic - Nice graphical front-end to apt. Install more software
using ATrpms/DAG/Dries/FreshRPMS/newrpms repositories!


Audio & Video
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streamtuner - Tune into Internet radio stations
streamripper - and rip what you're tuned to
audacity (and others) for sound editing with lots of plugins
mplayer and xine for video playback (with codecs and libraries)
ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
dvgrab - Use DV camera and download movies
kino - Basic video editor
effectv & freej - Cool realtime video effects
MuSE - DJ your own Internet radio station
grip - Rip CDs into mp3 or ogg files
gtkpod - iPod manager
hasciicam - ASCII art video conferencing :)))
perl-dvd-rip - Rip DVDs
xine & videolan - alternative video players
xmms - Music (mp3, aac, ogg) player, with BLURSK screen effects


Graphics
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gimp - THE Linux image editor
blender - 3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-production
pfaedit - font editor
sodipodi - vector graphics


"Office"
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abiword - word processing
gnumeric - spreadsheet
cdrecord/nautilus/simplecdrx - burn CDs
scribus - Desktop Publishing


Internet Goo
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evolution - Mail client
galeon & Mozilla - Surf the 'net
xchat, gaim - chat clients
Peer to Peer filesharing - bittorrent, lmule, gnutella, lopster


Website Development
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Mozilla Composer, bluefish - Create web pages
gurlchecker - validate links on your site


Wireless
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airsnort, airtraf, kismet
Extra wireless drivers for wireless gear


Desktops
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Gnome, XFce, icewm, blackbox, plus some extremely lightweight desktops


Security Tools
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gpg, gpa (gpg GUI), aes, apg, lokkit, srm, steghide


Servers
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Apache - The #1 webserver on the Internet, with PHP
MySQL - Great database server (with mysqlcc GUI)
Darwin Streaming Server - Streams audio & video
icecast - Serve mp3 streams (Internet Radio)
atalk - appletalk filesharing
samba - if you're stuck sharing with windoz
vsftpd - ftp daemon
postfix - SMTP
vls - VideoLAN server
imap - 143/tcp
openssh - of course
nfs...


Kernel
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BLAG includes the latest RedHat kernel at time of release. It also has a variety of drivers for wireless cards, modems, ntfs, thinkpad, etc.



Developers DVD
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A developers DVD, which includes all BLAG, all RedHat, all source, and other goodies is available.


March 9th, 2004