[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: CD Recording

[linux]

MadHat writes: 

> On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 12:32, Kelledin wrote:
>> On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:13 pm, Peter A. Koren wrote:
>> > I have been burning CDs under windows and finally decided to
>> > do it under Linux. I noticed that my KDE archiving menu --
>> > under Mandrake 9.1 -- has some software choices. The choices
>> > are GCombust, K3b and Gnome-Toaster. I burn both Audio CDs and
>> > data CDs for backup. I would not mind having other
>> > capabilities that are available.
>> >
>> > Can anyone make recommendations? 
>> 
>> I tend to prefer XCDRoast (http://www.xcdroast.org/).  It may 
>> have an "alpha" tag, but it's really very stable.  I'd be 
>> surprised as hell if Manrake didn't have it on one of its CDs...
> 
> 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 dono,  I've used xcdroast for about a year and a half now and seems pretty 
user friendly.  I've installed it on several computers and had no problmes 
out of it or it's configuration.  ...Works for me...  :)