BLAG30002 Released

jebba · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:00 am Post subject: BLAG30002 Released

BLAG30002 (Johannesburg) has been released -- Now 15.2% improved!

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.

BLAG30002 is based on Fedora Core 3 plus updates, adds apps from Dag, Freshrpms, NewRPMS, and includes custom packages.

BLAG30002 is the latest update to the BLAG30k series, using the last updates from Fedora before moving to the Fedora Legacy project.

New CD packages include kiax (VoIP softphone), netcat and xvid4conf.

Updates include a new kernel, xorg, firefox, glibc, openssh, thunderbird, inkscape, scribus, gaim, xchat, httpd (apache), php, cups, vim, zlib, icecast, blackbox, bluefish, gnupg, gtkpod, openssl, perl, php, spamassassin, bittorrent, graveman, kismet, xine, kino, and MuSE.

Overall, 130 packages were updated on the CD.

Alphas of BLAG based on FC4 are available, but 30002 is the recommended release. The next stable series will be based on Fedora Core 5 (BLAG50k). Development has started based on FC5-test2, but no ISOs are available yet. Expect 50k alpha ISOs "soon". :)

Keyworks: kickstart installs, apt, yum, synaptic, repository a52dec, abiword, airsnort/crack, amule, audacity, blackbox, bittorrent, bluefish, effectv, faac, faad2, ffmpeg, firefox, flac, xorg, gaim, gimp, gnome, gnumeric, gpg, graveman, grip, gstreamer-*, gtkpod, gthumb, hasciicam, apache, icecast, inkscape, kiax, kino, kismet, ladspa, lame, matroska, liferea, lshw, mjpegtools, mozilla, mysql, mpg321, mplayer, MuSE, netatalk, nmap, ssh, ssl, perl*, php, postfix, privoxy, python, qt, rpm, samba, scribus, spamassassin, speex, streamtuner+ripper, swh, theora, thunderbird, tor, transcode, vorbis, xchat, xfce, xmms, xvid

CD Images:
http://www.blagblagblag.org/torrents/BLAG-30002.torrent
ftp://ftp.blagblagblag.org/pub/BLAG/linux/30000/en/iso/BLAG-30002.iso
http://www.blagblagblag.org/30000/iso/BLAG-30002.iso

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

February 2nd, 2006

stevo32 · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:09 am Post subject: Yay!

Another release out, hurrah!

Congrats to jebba, hyland and everybody else who contributed to this release on an awesome job done and let's hope we get some public 50k alphas soon! :)

Thanks,
Stephen Clement

Mika Hack · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:49 am Post subject: Well done

We stay tuned.....!!!
;-)

glogo

hi from india.
Very glad I am to see that you are progressing steadily.
I made the escape from berlin. no high speed connection here though and as yet no pc/laptop. when I do get one, blagging is high on my priority list.

:-)

gloria

Jason · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:44 pm Post subject:

Awesome :)

Fotograf · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject: blag 3002

Hello from Montreal
was very happy with many previous versions - before...
so I am downloading this NEW one too !

galen · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:01 pm Post subject:

dang it, just reinstalled 30k1.
no beer to cry in.
hehe

stevo32 · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:50 pm Post subject:

Don't forget, ibiblio mirrors BLAG too!

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/blag/30000/en/iso/

Thanks,
Stephen Clement

Chris · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:29 am Post subject: blag 30002

Hi, I am not sure if maybe my cd burned poorly but blag 30002 installed fine but had two broken packages when I opened up synaptic. Mplayer and mencoder were the two broken packages.

jebba · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:52 pm Post subject: Re: blag 30002

Praxis · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:17 am Post subject:

I downloaded the bittorrent and I guess the CD ISO, but I got a different md5sum than I expected. I didn't try to burn it and install. Should I continue to let others upload from my file? Could my funky little low-tech CLI bittorrent client (ctorrent 1.3.2) be at fault? Has anyone else had this problem?

md5sum BLAG-30002.iso that I downloaded with the torrent.
069bc996c223a61d4d04ce4263df0efc BLAG-30002.iso

Md5sum from FTP site and Blag download page:
a00ce7abd3855d05551d18fd2407038e BLAG-30002.iso

nofoto · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:44 am Post subject:

To be honest, I've never had the right checksum with downloaded iso's from BLAG, but it has never been a problem for me. I rarely check md5sums anyway :p

Praxis · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject:

Well, I downloaded the DVD off of the FTP server and it passed the MD5SUM, so I guess I'll burn that and delete the CD ISO. It seems to me mostly my Blag ISOs have passed checksum tests.

I used to ignore the md5sum, but it seemed to me whenever a installation stalled out and I checked the ISO later, it had failed the file integrity check. I think K3B automatically checks the md5sum by default, so it is not a big hassle.

jebba · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject:

Uh, you really want the md5sum to match....

It's
a00ce7abd3855d05551d18fd2407038e BLAG-30002.iso

Bittorrent makes sure it's fine and will get the missing bits if needed. If it's not passing via an ftp download, perhaps it's getting messed up when you resume or something, if you didn't get it all in one shot. You can take a broken ftp install and "fix" it by downloading the foo bits with bittorrent.

-Jeff

rob.linux

Does anyone know if I can upgrade my 10K with the 30002 CD ??

Or should I do a fresh install ??

Thanks Rob