[NTLUG:Discuss] re: cd burning

[terry]

Fred wrote:
> Madhat - & others -
> 
> A friend recently bought one of those super cheap Fry's "Thiz Linux" boxes so
> she could learn Linux. I took one look at it, tucked it under my arm and took
> it home. First thing was to blow away that crap and put in Mdk 9, plus a lot of
> extra goodies, like Open Office.

Did everyone pick up on the latest news from OpenOffice.org?

From: http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?category=software&id=14192

New Release 1.1 RC5:

# A "talkback" style crash reporter to collect stacktrace and error 
information
# New command line parameter -start to automatically start a 
presentation after the document is loaded
# Ability to update existing OpenOffice.org 1.0.x single user installations
# Support for drawing objects in headers and footers
# An example XSLT filter for Office 2003 XML format
# Support for MS Excel 95 and older form controls
# Built in spell checking dictionaries for English (UK) and Italian
# Improved spelling suggestions using n-gram scoring


  She had given me a cd burner to install also.
> I had fun that weekend!!! Anyway, I finally got it working and when I tried the
> burner I found that each program (xcdroast, gcombust and gnome-toaster) was
> necessary because one would excel at making cd copies, one would do music well
> and the other would make data cds easier. None on it's own was as good overall
> as Adaptec's windoze offerings (good is relative, I know. Maybe I should say
> easy-to-use or intuitive or something to indicate that the linux stuff,
> although tecnically superior in some respects, is a pain in the ass to use). I
> can only hope that enough people will get linux boxes so the Ferengi software
> houses will see the profit in writing decent code.
> 
> Just my $.02
> Fred
> ps - on a totally unrelated note: Duke Nuke'm runs really well on my Linux box.
> The port works!
> 
> 

I found xcdroast user friendly for all methods of CD burning.
Just my $.02

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