[xubuntu-users] X software to rip and burn

[Roderick Aldridge]

On 08/06/12 04:59, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:25 AM, TOM TOM<thomasthoma at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> I've got a conglomeration of software on my Ubuntu system.  I hope to
>>> strip down and go Xubuntu at 12.04.1.  I need some help with
>>> alternatives.
>>>
>>> I've been using K3B to burn CDs and DVDs, mostly release disks and
>>> other software, a few backups.
>>> I use Ktorrent.
>>> I use Kalarm.
>>> I use gparted and Gimp.  Does the 'g' mean Gnome, GNU or what?  What
>>> else is there?
>>> I use synaptic, and don't know if it's in Xubuntu.
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>> Anything can be installed in Xubuntu. That said:
> Yes.  That's what I wound up doing to Ubuntu, and don't want to repeat.
>
>> K3b is irreplaceable, so you'd have most of the KDE dependencies anyways,
>> thus Ktorrent and Kalarm wouldn't hurt so much.
> Almost makes me want to fork K3b.  How much of KDE does it actually
> need, I wonder.
>
Brasero comes with Xubuntu. It does everything that K3B does except 
one-pass copying music CDs. I installed it to do this and it brought in 
26MB of KDE dependencies.

Roderick Aldridge