BLAG is good for techies and newbies alike.
Why BLAG over rh9?
The BLAG CD has the applications most users want "out-of-the-box" without all sorts of bloat.
It includes video players (mplayer, xine, vlc), xmms that can actually play mp3s (unlike redhat), dvd ripper. Peer-to-peer software. Servers. Internet radio for listening, serving, and/or djing streams.
It has all sorts of drivers if you have wireless gear.
The list goes on...kickstart automajick installs, etc...
If users want to add more applications, synaptic (apt-get) is available to add anything. It is pre-configured to work with the main repositories (DAG, freshrpms, macromedia, etc.).
Check out the website to see what it has instead of just saying "junk" thrown in. It also has extra crypto and tools admins like.
A developers DVD is available. It has all redhat, all blag, source code, and extra bits.
I would certainly call BLAG a "real linux". If you see any real shortcomings, please let me know.
BLAG Resources
==============
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 Docs Project
http://bugzilla.blagblagblag.org BLAG Bugzilla