CD burning - hardware compatibility

[Daniel Carrera]

Hi all,

Right now I have a regular CD drive. I'm thinking of replacing it by a 
CD burner. My question is: can I just replace them and expect the CD 
burner to work?

Last I checked, getting a CD burner working on Linux was a major 
operation, but that was several years ago. What are things like today? 
I'm also concerned about whether Ubuntu will recognize new hardware when 
I'm not doing a brand new installation.

Help?

Cheers,
Daniel.
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