On 4/23/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nero is a child's plaything compared to cdrtools from Joerg Schilling, that BTW come built into Solaris: cdrecord -scanbus cdrecord -v -data -sao dev=c,t,l /var/tmp/MyImage.ISO where "c,t,l" are the numbers you'd get from `cdrecord -scanbus`, and that's it. It doesn't get any simpler than that. For burning files, one can use `mkisofs` and there are even advanced UDF image creation techniques involving the lofi(7D) driver and lofiadm(1M) command. Nero can't touch any of that stuff; it's cumbersome and dumbed down to the extreme.
If we are talking ease of use, the Nero suite wins hands down. Avg Joe user wont have the time to build ISOs or look through the man pages for the right options and utilize the very powerful features that may be present in cdrecord. Calling Nero "cumbersome" and "dumbed down" is simply wrong. It is one of the easiest to learn burning tools, and if there were a Solaris version, I'd much rather use it over terminal cdrecord, or the nautilus CD/DVD burner(which currently makes up for the lack of a dedicated GUI). There is a need for GUI, and Nero can well fill the gap. ~Anil
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