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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Mar 2008 14:04 UTC

It is that time of year again: a new Ubuntu release is upon us. The beta version of Ubuntu 8.04 was released a few days ago, so I decided to give it a try and see what new features and improvements they have shoved into this one. As always, this is as much a preview of the latest GNOME release (2.22) as it is of Ubuntu itself. Read on for the preview.

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CD burning

by OMRebel on Wed 26th Mar 2008 14:33 UTC

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2005-11-14

Noticed that Brasero is included in this release of Ubuntu. I'm not sure about anyone else, but does anyone actually use something other than K3b? I know it's a KDE application, but that's one of the first apps that I install when setting up a fresh instance of Ubuntu.

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RE: CD burning

by fsckit on Wed 26th Mar 2008 14:50 in reply to "CD burning"

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2006-09-24

Other than K3b? Sure. cdrkit for teh win.

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RE: CD burning

by WereCatf on Wed 26th Mar 2008 14:54 in reply to "CD burning"

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2006-02-15

but does anyone actually use something other than K3b?

I haven't used a single dedicated cd-burning-app in years. Whenever I need to burn a CD I use Nautilus, or in case of premade images I just right-click and select Burn.. Works like a charm, haven't had a single issue ever since that functionality was first introduced to Nautilus.

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RE: CD burning

by nxsty on Wed 26th Mar 2008 14:58 in reply to "CD burning"

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2005-11-12

I burn ISOs and files with nautilus, I have no need to install a separate burning app.

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RE: CD burning

by polaris20 on Wed 26th Mar 2008 15:17 in reply to "CD burning"

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2005-07-06

I never use K3b anymore, now that I've got Brasero. It does what I need it to do, without having a KDE-centric app installed on my GNOME-based machine.

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RE[2]: CD burning

by autumnlover on Wed 26th Mar 2008 15:37 in reply to "RE: CD burning"

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2007-04-12

I wonder when all those clever guys will come with the idea of "write verification" in any open source CD/DVD burning application in Linux - except k3b ?

Are they ever burn their DVDs using application they produce ?

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RE: CD burning

by Soulbender on Wed 26th Mar 2008 15:27 in reply to "CD burning"

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2005-08-18

but does anyone actually use something other than K3b?

I never use K3B. It's a nice app and all but anything I need to do can be done either from Nautilus (copy, write) or with Brasero.

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RE[2]: CD burning

by l3v1 on Wed 26th Mar 2008 18:59 in reply to "RE: CD burning"

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I never use K3B. It's a nice app and all but anything I need to do can be done either from Nautilus (copy, write) or with Brasero.

There were times, when there simply was no competitor for K3B, as a GUI, for cd/dvd ripping and burning. Times change, and that is a good thing. Still, I sometimes can't believe how many people just dismiss K3B (don't take this on you) saying there are other apps. Well, trying to be somewhat objective, I'd say for KDE users it's really hard to find anything better. For me, under Linux, K3B has always been the ultimate tool for the task.

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RE: CD burning

by pandronic on Wed 26th Mar 2008 15:31 in reply to "CD burning"

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2006-05-18

I, for one, hate using QT apps in Gnome or GTK aps in KDE or non-native looking apps in Windows. I like it all nice and consistent especially when the basic features are the same.

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RE[2]: CD burning

by siride on Wed 26th Mar 2008 16:46 in reply to "RE: CD burning"

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2006-01-02

Just install QtCurve for both GTK and Qt and then everything looks the same. And unlike gtk-engines-qt, it's not an ugly hack.

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RE: CD burning

by osjohn on Thu 27th Mar 2008 12:17 in reply to "CD burning"

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2006-07-12

I know it's not open source or free but I've always liked and used Nero's linux offering. K3B just hung when I attempted a burn on my laptop.

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RE: CD burning

by bogolisk on Sun 30th Mar 2008 03:33 in reply to "CD burning"

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2006-08-03

does anyone actually use something other than K3b?

Never use k3b, why do I need a big gui to call growisofs when I can call growisofs directly?

k3b is just a front-end gui.

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