Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 May 2005 06:23:05 +0200 | From | "Brian O'Mahoney" <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog/cdrecord replacement |
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I don't want to pour gasoline on an incipient flame war, but my two points here are:
1-- SUN uses RPM internally, but continues to insist its Solaris customers countinue to put up with pkg*, which makes system administration of solaris a nightmare after a while especially when mixed in with binary patches and patch dependancies with major vendors like Oracle, SAP and Veritas and all of this brings the Solaris admin/developer no benefit at all.
RPM is free software so SUN could just use it, and if they did the major platform vendors would in a New York minute.
And SUN do this so they can sell the Update Service
2-- There was little wrong with cdrecord until DVDs came out and H Schilling decided to take DVD PRO private and became petty about his build system, smake, and others extending a fork of cdrecord to support DVDs; which was done by both SuSE and Debian -- but with weird add in Copyright, and you can't change this, and "Inofficial Version" junk from Schilling.
And then there was the Solaris/Linux flames, and most of us just got tired of all the hassle, I just wanted to write DVD-R and DVD-ROM media.
After wasting a lot of time and coasters I note that
dvdrtools from 'http://www.nongnu.org/dvdrtools/'
and the dvd+rw package from http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
both work well, and without any hassle, and now use DVD+RW which, now, writes all formats of DVD
so I _nolonger_care_ about Schilling, smake, cdrecord or his Linux flames, since the fact that DVD+RW can, reliably write DVDs and even DVD PRO can't means to me that there is nothing wrong with Linux and something wrong with cdrecord.
Or am I missing something here?
Andrew Haninger wrote: >>... flames the LKML about how Linux breaks cdrecord >>(instead of just admitting cdrecord is broken) > > > I've always used cdr-tools on Linux and Windows since it is the > only/best tool for mastering CDs. It takes the installation of Joerg's > library, but after that, it's worked wonderfully. This is even the > tool that is suggested by the HOWTOs that newbies are told to read. It > has always appeared to me that it was the only/best tool.
See above
> (This is really only a half-sarcastic reply. I really would like to > know if there's a better tool. However, I'm also trying to point out > that Joerg's software seems to be all that can be used at the moment > and so it's hard for me as a humble end-user to really care if his > software is broken since it works.)
-- mit freundlichen Grüßen, Brian.
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