el 2008-06-23 a las 14:58 Joerg Schilling escribió: > Cdrecord is known to work with all drives and media. Other software > may have problems with some drives or media.
that's exactly my personal experience. i won't comment about license issues, because although i always try to support "free" software i have to admit that i understand little or nothing about legal issues. but let me share my personal experience: last year i bought a shiny brand new laptop. i was very happy with it until i tried to record cds or dvds. about 80% of my attempts ended in the trash can. at first i thought i had bought a defective lot of media, but when the same happened with different types of media i began to think that my drive was either defective or not well supported by linux. both alternatives were quite depressing... after days of googling trying to find a solution, somehow i realized that gentoo had installed a "fake" cdrecord instead of the "real" one. i don't know how or why this happened. perhaps it was my fault but it sure was not my intention. searching the gentoo site i found something about license problems and how they had decided to replace it with a different package and you could not even realize it. i erased the ersatz, emerged the original cdrecord, and never had a problem again. my drive was perfectly sane after all, and the media i bought was just fine. sorry for the rant, but i'm still annoyed by that incident. -- [email protected] mailing list
