Re: [OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog

[Patrick McFarland <pmcfarland@downeast.net>]

On Saturday 21 May 2005 09:22 pm, Andrew Haninger wrote:
> > ... flames the LKML about how Linux breaks cdrecord
> > (instead of just admitting cdrecord is broken)
>
> I've always used cdr-tools on Linux and Windows since it is the
> only/best tool for mastering CDs. It takes the installation of Joerg's
> library, but after that, it's worked wonderfully. This is even the
> tool that is suggested by the HOWTOs that newbies are told to read. It
> has always appeared to me that it was the only/best tool.

I was refering to the 2.6 permissions bug in cdrecord. It wouldn't work using 
a non-root user, even if they had the correct permissions. 2.6 changed (for 
the better, mind you), and Joerg refused to fix cdrecord. (I don't know if 
its even fixed now). Theres been other cases of cdrecord breaking on Linux 
only, but I can't think of them atm.

> If it's broken, then surely there's an unbroken drop-in replacement
> program that should be used. And surely it works much better than
> cdr-tools and is easier to use. However, after a few seconds of Google
> searches, I was unable to find it.

I really wish someone would build a replacement for cdrecord, but Joerg just 
hasn't pissed off that potential author enough.

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Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || pmcfarland@downeast.net
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd 
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repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

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