[GNU-linux-libre] Why is BLAG still being recommended?

[Julian]

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BLAG is currently recommended on
<https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html>. This doesn't make
sense to me, especially now that Ututo has been removed due to being
unmaintained.

There hasn't been an official announcement saying that BLAG is
unmaintained, but it's obvious that it is and has been for more than a
year. The latest release was 2.5 years ago, and based on Fedora 14,
which reached end-of-life 2 years ago. In addition, if you look at the
forums, you will find that the BLAG community is not very active, and
the people there don't even use BLAG; they use custom modifications of
Fedora instead (adding Freed-ora and BLAG themes).

I've tried BLAG before, and it's no good because the software is so
old and unmaintained. For example, it has an old short-term-support
version of some Firefox variant (Iceweasel, I think, and I want to say
version 5, but I'm not sure), which means it doesn't work with many
Firefox add-ons today. I also recall the repositories being broken,
though I don't know if that was just a temporary problem.

The only reason I can think of for using BLAG is to have an RPM-based
system, and anyone who cares that much about it probably won't have
any problem using Fedora/Freed-ora.
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