lightscribe

Tue Aug 21 08:33:54 UTC 2007

Joel Bryan Juliano spake thusly:
> On 8/21/07, Bob Cortez <rjcortez at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Have you tried this:
>> http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/L4?content=47458
>>
> 
> The Lacie LightScribe KDE version looks so much better than in OSX,
> But it sucks, the driver and the software are not open source.

Neither are the "official" drivers and software[1]. Just like NVIDIA and
ATI video drivers it's a necessary evil (which I can easily live with).

[1] http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadSection/linux/index.aspx

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