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jebba
 Post subject: BLAG50001 Released
PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:38 pm 
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BLAG50001 (smack) has been released.


BLAG Linux and GNU is a 100% Free Software distribution.


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

BLAG50001 (smack) is based on Fedora Core 5 and uses packages from Extras, FreshRPMS, Dries, and ATrpms. It includes all Fedora updates as of time of release.


CD Images:
http://www.blagblagblag.org/torrents/BL ... so.torrent
ftp://ftp.blagblagblag.org/pub/BLAG/lin ... -50001.iso
http://www.blagblagblag.org/50000/iso/BLAG-50001.iso


http://www.blagblagblag.org BLAG Website
http://forums.blagblagblag.org BLAG Forums
http://wiki.blagblagblag.org BLAG Documentation
http://bugzilla.blagblagblag.org BLAG Bugzilla



New CD packages include gnomebaker, graveman, streamripper and a few gstreamer plugins.


Updates include abiword, audacity, cups, firefox, gimp, gnome-*, gnupg, hal, httpd, inkscape, kernel, liferea, nautilus, NetworkManager, qt, streamtuner, system-config-printer, thunderbird, vim, xine-lib.

Overall, 12 new packages were added, 89 updated.


August 23rd, 2006
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Mijo
 Post subject: Thank you
PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:46 pm 
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Thank you very much for your continuing effort on BLAG!

Cheers to all of you...

Mijo
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Caraibes
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Good job, mate !
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r7
 Post subject: the usual
PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:38 pm 
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[r7@cramp ~]$ cat /etc/blag-release
BLAG release 50001 (smack)
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weyasey
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:49 pm 
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Man! one minute I was on Grass and before I know it I'm on Smack....snort.

:)

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Praxis
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:41 am 
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I'm waiting to download BLAG 50014, PeyoteEnema.
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noldrin
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:18 am 
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do we need a seperate command to upgrade the kernel?
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r7
 Post subject: humourmeister
PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:48 am 
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Praxis wrote:
I'm waiting to download BLAG 50014, PeyoteEnema.


rofl. /me joins the queue...
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r7
 Post subject: upgrading kernel
PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:57 am 
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noldrin wrote:
do we need a seperate command to upgrade the kernel?


Code:
apt-get upgrade && apt-get install kernel


will give you a list of what you have installed and what is available in the repo. if you running on a conventional sytem you'll end up doing something like:

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apt-get install kernel#2.6.17-1.2174_FC5


this will require a restart.
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extraspecialbitter
 Post subject: upgrade options
PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:42 pm 
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I've the luxury of having an empty 40GB partition that is currently dedicated to installing an as-of-yet unidentified Linux distro (although dyne:bolic and OpenSuSE are front runners). I've read within this forum, however, that fresh installs of BLAG upgrades tend to be "cleaner" than upgrading the existing version in place. Is this true for even the "minor" upgrade from BLAG 50000 to 50001?

In a perfect world, I assume the code to perform the upgrade might be as simple as:

Code:
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade && install

Thoughts? Thanks!
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r7
 Post subject: Re: upgrade options
PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:05 pm 
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extraspecialbitter wrote:
Is this true for even the "minor" upgrade from BLAG 50000 to 50001?


not really.

extraspecialbitter wrote:
In a perfect world, I assume the code to perform the upgrade might be as simple as:

Code:
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade && install


Code:
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
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jebba
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:11 pm 
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Ya, to reiterate what r7 said, "not really". ;)

You just need to update your base system thusly:

Code:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade


Grab the latest kernel (and reboot):

Code:
apt-get install kernel#2.6.17-1.2174_FC5


Then you could also add the few bits added to 50001 that weren't in 50000:

Code:
apt-get install gnomebaker graveman \ gstreamer08-plugins-extra-audio \ gstreamer08-plugins-extra-dvd \ gstreamer08-plugins-extra-video \
streamripper vcdimager


That'll get you to the same setup as a 50001 fresh install.

FWIW, I personally don't (typically) do fresh installs. I have some systems I've upgraded since RH8 era...

-Jeff
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stevo32
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Congrats all on another great release! :)

Thanks,
Stephen Clement

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extraspecialbitter
 Post subject: BLAG 50001
PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:50 am 
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it's a beautiful thing...

Code:
pablo@brixton=> cat /etc/blag-release
BLAG release 50001 (smack)
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logicmaster
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[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/blag-release
BLAG release 50001 (smack)

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