I was a bit apprehensive of trying to do this in Ubuntu and was about to boot into Windows. But after reading your blog I decided to give it a try (after backing up my DVD on the hd). Thanks a ton. Your blog is a great help for people moving to freedom :) Kudos.

I have burnt Sabayon Linux 3.3 mini and Mandriva One Spring at the highest burn speed my cd/rw supports this week (48x) and no errors, I have never had a bad burn with Brasero and that amounts to hundreds of burns!

I could say the same of K3b too. I'll admit to usually burning at 36x for cd ISOs of Linux distros to avoid any new coasters. Brasero does have the advantage of not requiring any kde libs and IMHO kde apps don't look great in gnome however good they are. Although I know plenty of people running Amorak and k3b in an otherwise gnome environment.

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If you're just doing simple CD burning stuff like me, Brasero will hopefully do the job for you also.

I have been using xcdroast for a few years now, and have just gotten too lazy to change to anything else. Admittedly, I don't burn too many cd's much anymore...but when I do, I like the software to work. Lately, xcdroast has given me fits so I am on the lookout for something else. I will check into Brasero as it looks fairly interesting. Thanks!

Chad

I really did pass over K3b, although I suspected it would be good. I have nothing against KDE apps at all and am willing to use them, but I often look for a GNOME app first.

Brasero is very simple but it works for my basic CD burning needs. Maybe I should have tried K3b to have a more complete writeup on this topic. I'm sure I'll have some things I want to do eventually that will require more than what Brasero has to offer, and then I'll turn first to K3b. (And I hope I take the time to revisit the subject at that time.)

I'm liking Ubuntu for its newbie-friendliness, but have also been doing a lot of command line stuff lately. I hope to learn enough at that level that I can switch between distributions when and if necessary without too much pain. I like the combination of powerful CLI for some things and GUI for others. Mix and match for tasks that lend themselves better to one or the other. (I'm also trying to balance my desire to learn things in-depth with my impatience to get moved over.)

Thanks again for reading and for your comment.

I am surprised that you gave a scant look at K3B which is possibly the most user friendly and most practical burner program in existence. Even better, in my mind than the rightly respected Nero. I installed the burner program Brasero just now and had a look at it and tried it out and the difference is like chalk and cheese. I was staggered by how bland (a word alternative to dull and entirely uninteresting) the program is. It doesn't surprise me that none of the large number of Linux users I know have never heard of it.

I recommend you give K3B a real tryout. It is now even supported by La Cie the hardware manufacturer. You only get that kind of support when you have made the grade. In your future endeavors to encourage others to follow in your Linux adventure you will knock their sox off when you show them K3B, whereas show them Brasero and it will likely frighten them away thinking if this is typical of Linux then they don't want to know about it.

Keep up your good writing.

By the way, I use (for the past3yrs) Mandriva and have converted at least 8 other people to it in these past couple of years and none have reverted back to windows for anything since. They are all dual boot but are now considering wiping Windows so they can use the extra space for their Mandriva. None have fallen for the hype about Ubuntu or Kubuntu even though we are sure they are very good OSs.

Cheers. John (72yrs young)