[NTLUG:Discuss] CD Recording

[Kelledin]

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...

...as it is, almost all the nice graphical utilities for burning 
CDs are really front-ends for utilities in the cdrtools package.  
Make sure you have that installed--and make VERY sure you have 
it updated to the latest vendor updates.  cdrtools often 
contains setuid/setgid utilities and has had a couple of 
exploits crop up recently.

-- 
Kelledin
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