[xubuntu-users] X software to rip and burn

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:46 AM, TOM TOM <thomasthoma at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Roderick Aldridge <rod-aldridge at xnet.co.nz>
> wrote:
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>> On 08/06/12 04:59, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:25 AM, TOM TOM<thomasthoma at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> [snip]
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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

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> Personally I don't mind the dependencies, since K3B to me is the most
> trustworthy one of them all.

Thanks all.  I don't copy music, so I'll be trying brasero.  My
interests are mainly data, software and backups.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD