CD burning software

[Douglas Stewart]

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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.
|>>>
|>>>http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/faq-a15.html#11
|>>>
|>>>
|>>
|>>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.
|>>
|>>
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|
| Dan Goodes  :  Systems Programmer  :  dang at planetmirror.com
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Have you tried gcombust?  I've never been happier with a CD burning tool.

http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust/

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Doug Stewart
Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs

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