BLAG Linux and GNU
| Company type | Linux distribution |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Predecessor | Fedora (base) |
| Founded | 2002-10-22 |
| Headquarters | Brixton , United Kingdom |
| Products | Linux distribution |
BLAG Linux and GNU was a now-defunct Linux distribution created by the Brixton Linux Action Group. This distribution was provided on a single CD and included an extensive selection of pre-installed desktop software, covering multimedia, graphics, internet utilities, as well as server-related packages. BLAG derived from Fedora, enhanced with updates and additional software sourced from Dag, Dries, Freshrpms, NewRPMS repositories, along with its own custom-built packages.
Importantly, BLAG was one of the rare operating systems officially acknowledged by the Free Software Foundation as a fully free software distribution.
History
BLAG's initial version was publicly launched on 22 October 2002. The most recent stable release, BLAG 140k, which was based on Fedora 14, became available on 4 May 2011. An alpha release of BLAG 200000 followed in October 2014.
Development efforts for BLAG 240000 started in January 2016 but were ultimately left unfinished.
The kernel-cleaning utility developed for BLAG, designed to eliminate proprietary blobs from the default kernel, later formed the basis for the Linux-libre suite of scripts.