On 08/07/07, Ronnie Whisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
try to remember that xubuntu is designed for older machines and to be lightweight most older machines do not have a dvd burner.
Isn't Xubuntu designed to be fast and light-weight? Still, even on older machines I think you can buy a CD burner. Anyway, this discussion gets me thinking: what CD/DVD burner does Ubuntu ship? On 7/8/07, Hexzenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Unfortunately HacBurn also has a problem in common with Xfburn: no > support for DVDs. DVDs are now extremely common media, and including a > optical disc utility that doesn't support DVD at all would be bad, IMHO. > > I also came upon this link: http://www.nabble.com/Is-this-an-active-project--t3171932.html > > > It seems that GnomeBaker development is definitely at a standstill, > unfortunately. There's a project called GnomeBakerNg which is supposed to > continue development ( http://libburnia.pykix.org/wiki/GnomebakerNg), > but it doesn't seem to have actually had any work done on it. > > This effectively means that Brasero is the only GTK/GNOME burning > utility that's being actively maintained, and it's loaded with GNOME > dependencies (although GnomeBaker is, as well). > > At this point it seems like all I can hope for is that either Graveman > development starts back up, or Xfburn makes dramatic progress in the > near-future. I've even been looking at NeroLinux 3 (blasphemy, I know), > which has gotten some good reviews. > > I don't mean to turn the CD/DVD burner issue into a personal piss and > moan session. I'm just worried about the Xubuntu devs having to ship a > woefully feature-bare (and in some cases, buggy) app with Gutsy. > > On 7/8/07, Ronnie Whisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > hacburn is very active last updated March 9, 2007 > > > > On 7/8/07, Hexzenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > Hm, after taking a look at GnomeBaker's SourceForge page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker), > > > it seems it last had an update on October 15, 2006, and according to a post > > > on Arch's bugtracker ( http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6916) it's no > > > longer being maintained either, leaving Brasero the only maintained CD/DVD > > > burner. > > > > > > On 7/8/07, Hexzenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Currently Xfburn is rather inadequate for most people in need of a > > > > CD/DVD burner. It doesn't handle DVD-Rs at all, and many people report > > > > having problems with it. Obviously it needs to be replaced. > > > > > > > > I would have recommended Graveman, since it's free of GNOME > > > > dependencies, however it seems Graveman development is dead (no updates in a > > > > year). That leaves us with GnomeBaker or Brasero, unless there is another > > > > GTK/GNOME CD/DVD burner that I'm unaware of. > > > > > > > > Zenwalk recently had the same dilemma and went with GnomeBaker. > > > > > > > > I know this issue has been discussed previously on this list, but > > > > it didn't seem like any conclusions were made. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > xubuntu-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > > > > > > > > > -- > > xubuntu-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > > > > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
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