On Sunday 23 Mar 2003 7:55 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Sunday 23 Mar 2003 7:00 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > On Sunday 23 March 2003 11:45 am, Owen Berio wrote: > > Owen, if you care about my advice : don't install K3b. > > > > Reason : by default it changes your /etc/fstab file, adding > > some more entries, thus messing the whole thing up. > > Although it seems possible to avoid that, I agree > > completely with Tom Brinkman who said something in the line > > of : anyone who writes an application that changes > > important system files should be taken out and shot. > > > > BTW : there are heaps of other, less agressive GUI's for > > burning CD's. To mention a few : XCDroast, Gcombust, > > Gnometoaster, CDBakeoven etc., etc.. > > > > HTH > > > > Kaj Haulrich. > > Sory Kaj, but my advice is the opposite. > k3b is a very good burner with features not available in other GUI based > burning apps. > K3b does offer to set up your fstab file for you. But you do not have to > say 'Yes'. Set up your fstab by hand and k3b will fine. > > Since it will be in the main distro in 9.1 lots of people are going to be > using it. > I didn't allow it to alter mine, but could someone please spell out exactly what goes wrong if you do allow it?
I have to say that I think much is down to preference, and I still like XCDRoast, but it is certainly true that there are things K3b does that are difficult or impossible in other apps. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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