CD/DVD Burner

[Vincent]

On 08/07/07, Ronnie Whisler <mrwislr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> try to remember that xubuntu is designed for older machines and to be
> lightweight most older machines do not have a dvd burner.


Isn't Xubuntu designed to be fast and light-weight? Still, even on older
machines I think you can buy a CD burner.

Anyway, this discussion gets me thinking: what CD/DVD burner does Ubuntu
ship?

On 7/8/07, Hexzenn <hexzenn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately HacBurn also has a problem in common with Xfburn: no
> > support for DVDs. DVDs are now extremely common media, and including a
> > optical disc utility that doesn't support DVD at all would be bad, IMHO.
> >
> > I also came upon this link: http://www.nabble.com/Is-this-an-active-project--t3171932.html
> >
> >
> > It seems that GnomeBaker development is definitely at a standstill,
> > unfortunately. There's a project called GnomeBakerNg which is supposed to
> > continue development ( http://libburnia.pykix.org/wiki/GnomebakerNg),
> > but it doesn't seem to have actually had any work done on it.
> >
> > This effectively means that Brasero is the only GTK/GNOME burning
> > utility that's being actively maintained, and it's loaded with GNOME
> > dependencies (although GnomeBaker is, as well).
> >
> > At this point it seems like all I can hope for is that either Graveman
> > development starts back up, or Xfburn makes dramatic progress in the
> > near-future. I've even been looking at NeroLinux 3 (blasphemy, I know),
> > which has gotten some good reviews.
> >
> > I don't mean to turn the CD/DVD burner issue into a personal piss and
> > moan session. I'm just worried about the Xubuntu devs having to ship a
> > woefully feature-bare (and in some cases, buggy) app with Gutsy.
> >
> > On 7/8/07, Ronnie Whisler <mrwislr at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > hacburn is very active last updated March 9, 2007
> > >
> > > On 7/8/07, Hexzenn <hexzenn at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hm, after taking a look at GnomeBaker's SourceForge page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker),
> > > > it seems it last had an update on October 15, 2006, and according to a post
> > > > on Arch's bugtracker ( http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6916) it's no
> > > > longer being maintained either, leaving Brasero the only maintained CD/DVD
> > > > burner.
> > > >
> > > > On 7/8/07, Hexzenn <hexzenn at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > Currently Xfburn is rather inadequate for most people in need of a
> > > > > CD/DVD burner. It doesn't handle DVD-Rs at all, and many people report
> > > > > having problems with it. Obviously it needs to be replaced.
> > > > >
> > > > > I would have recommended Graveman, since it's free of GNOME
> > > > > dependencies, however it seems Graveman development is dead (no updates in a
> > > > > year). That leaves us with GnomeBaker or Brasero, unless there is another
> > > > > GTK/GNOME CD/DVD burner that I'm unaware of.
> > > > >
> > > > > Zenwalk recently had the same dilemma and went with GnomeBaker.
> > > > >
> > > > > I know this issue has been discussed previously on this list, but
> > > > > it didn't seem like any conclusions were made.
> > > > >
> > > >
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