<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> does it burn dvds too????? On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 06:12, Douglas Stewart wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dan Goodes wrote: | Just to add my $0.02 here, I'd like to add that I agree whole-heartedly | with you about k3b vs. existing CD burning tools. | | I consider myself to be a fairly savvy linux user, not advanced, but I can | hold my own in a battle of wits with the beast. | | I had no luck at all using Gtoaster or XCDRoast, and what made matters | worse was that there was no easy-to-get-to doco for it. | | When I installed FC1 I went to a KDE environment, and installed K3B. with | very little tweaking, I was able to burn CDs quite happily. Even after | upgrading to a 2.6-test kernel, a quick fidget with some settings and I | was still able to burn CDs quite happily. | | So to that end, this end user's experience ith k3b has been awesome. :) | | -Dan | | | On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, stephan schutter wrote: | | |>You are indeed correct! I do understand the underlying reasons for why |>it works that way... but my granny don't -- so to speak. Fedora's |>ultimate goal is to be a desktop solution and a challenge to MS right? |>In this light the end user experience is essential; that is why I was |>asking. |> |> |>nosp wrote: |> |> |>>On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 23:22, William Hooper wrote: |>> |>> |>> |>>>stephan schutter said: |>>> |>>> |>>> |>>>>The Cd software included in Fedora requires root access |>>>>(absurd, users should be able to use the software to duplicate and burn |>>>>music CDs etc.). |>>>> |>>>> |>>> |>>>Assuming you are talking about X-CDRoast, it doesn't require root. |>>> |>>><A HREF="http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/faq-a15.html#11">http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/faq-a15.html#11</A> |>>> |>>> |>> |>>the helper apps of k3b & X-CDRoast and others require root access -- the |>>cdrecord & other binaries have to be setuid & owned by root. k3b has a |>>nice way of making that change for you that the other apps lack, so it |>>may seem like "k3b doesn't require root". I think that's what the OP |>>should have meant. |>> |>> |>>-- |>>fedora-test-list mailing list |>>fedora-test-list@redhat.com |>><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list</A> |>> |>> |> |> |>-- |>fedora-test-list mailing list |>fedora-test-list@redhat.com |><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list</A> |> | | | Regards, | | Dan Goodes : Systems Programmer : dang@planetmirror.com | | Help support PlanetMirror - Australia's largest Internet archive | by signing up for PlanetMirror Premium : <A HREF="http://planetmirror.com">http://planetmirror.com</A> | | | -- | fedora-test-list mailing list | fedora-test-list@redhat.com | <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list</A> Have you tried gcombust? I've never been happier with a CD burning tool. <A HREF="http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust/">http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust/</A> - -- - ---------- Doug Stewart Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <A HREF="http://enigmail.mozdev.org">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</A> iD8DBQE/zI+7N50Q8DVvcvkRAmtWAJ0bM1oqFL0iMYTR96y+b6sFU+4wqwCdEQSY hEkVbHmRT6WimDMVU2sSPgE= =Xvdn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@redhat.com <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list</A></PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>