On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:50 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 22:50 +0100, Clive at Rational wrote: > > [that he's having problems with xcdroast but not k3b] > > > Nice story, similar to mine. Did you have a question? > > > > AIUI x-cdroast is not the official package for FC4 and in my experience > > it has not kept pace with the distro. I switched to k3b about a year > > ago and have not gone back because of the problems with it since the 2.6 > > kernel came out. > > (I used x-cdroast when I was using RH9.) > > $ uname -a > Linux Presario-1 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 #1 Mon Mar 28 00:50:14 EST 2005 i686 > i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > I have been running xcdroast since last October, without a hitch. > > It seems clearly to be a front end for cdrecord to me. It even > displays what looks like some of the output from cdrecord. > > My machine shows nothing apropos k3b nor a man page. If xcdroast > works for me, should I consider switching to k3b? Try "yum install k3b" and try again. I find k3b to be very similar in look and feel to Nero on Windows, and much better than xcdroast, which I used to use. k3b is now my tool of choice for assembling a data CD when I'm not just burning an ISO, which is easily done from the command line. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
