On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 08:01, Northwest Marmot wrote: > OK, I'll start off with the disclaimer, I've been running Mdk 9.1 for oh, > about (checks watch) a few hours now on a laptop from the office. This is my > first journey into Linux (well, aside from multiple attempts with Red Hat > years ago, each aborted when I couldn't get an install to successfully > complete). > > I'm considering putting Mdk on my home system, if I can convince the > boss..er..wife (maybe her playing with the laptop while I undertake the > ceaseless winders patchtes and updates this weekend). My question is this, > what is a good application for burning CDs? > > I am looking for something that supports both CD-R and CD-RW (if any programs > still make any distinction). Should be easy to use as well (my wife does > most of the burning, and while she's pretty savvy, she does not want to spend > time figuring out how to use programs, hence the requirement for easy to > use). > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > The Northwest Marmot
Good on ya, Marmot... MDK is better for "end user" usage - much moreso than RedHat...but that's a divergent tale and I shan't bore you with my PP on it (personal philosophy)... Either which, BURNING SOFTWARE - ah yes - well, you have a choice - once again, moreso than in Windows... K3B (console: k3b) - Definitely a classy choice Arson (console: arson) - A KDE burner, nice, but not as cool as K3B ERoaster (console: eroaster) - Cool Gnome-Toaster (console: gtoaster) - er, Somewhat cool XCDroast (console: xcdroast) - er, Somewhat cool Nautilus (if you're running Gnome as the Desktop - alright, but often chokes) You can also find numerous other packages at freshmeat.net or sourceforge.net - or other MDK or GNU/linux sites - but if you want to have something NOW that is EASY, stick with K3B - it's part of the distribution (if it ain't installed by default, run rpmdrake and it'll install it for you). If you're really geeky, you can venture into the world of doing it all from the console - great for using in automagic scripts - or for creating ISO images... Good luck, glad to have ya onboard, cheers, and did I say good luck? stephen kuhn - owner ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ------------------------------------------------------------------ "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -- Walt Disney
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