[NTLUG:Discuss] CD Recording

[Cameron, Thomas]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MadHat [mailto:madhat at unspecific.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:02 AM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] CD Recording

> 
> Ya know, I recently installed this and a few dozen other CD 
> tools and I
> have found that they suck.  xcdroast is not intuitive and I have not
> been able to get it to work at all for creating data disks.  k3b is
> almost as bad, and cluttered with graphics.  I also installed a couple
> of other GUIs, all with the same shortcomings.  So far using 
> the command
> line seems to work best, especially for ISOs.  I have Roxio's EZ CD
> Creator and HP's Record Now, bith of which work well, but I  
> have yet to
> find anything that works for a GUI burner in Linux.  

I am a dual-technology kind of fellow (Linux and Win32), and I create custom bootable Win32 CD's all the time using Nero, using the instructions from http://bink.nu/bootcd.  I have looked high and low to find a F/OSS CD buring software package that will allow me to do it, and failed.  In fact, this capability is pretty much the last thing that keeps me from going pure Linux on my personal laptop.  K3b is good, better than most F/OSS CD burning software out there, but it still falls a bit short.

--
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Assistant Vice President
Linux Design and Engineering
Bank of America

The opinions expressed in this message are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer, Bank of America.