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cdrkit: Debian's fork of cdrtools

Posted Sep 4, 2006 18:01 UTC (Mon) by moxfyre (subscriber, #13847)
Parent article: cdrkit: Debian's fork of cdrtools

Kudos to Debian!

I hope that this will result in a CD-burning package that is more responsive to the needs of Linux distros, and without all the chest-thumping egotistical BS that has surrounded cdrtools.

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Posted Sep 4, 2006 18:27 UTC (Mon) by richo123 (guest, #24309) [Link]

Could not agree more! I have had a lot of problems with cd burning in Ubuntu and one was never sure because of Schilling's inpenetrable thicket where exactly the problem lay. His rants against linux scsi support used to really get on my nerves: Basic position was: use a proper unix like Sun or regress to a 2.4 kernel. Thanks (NOT) for the constructive input Herr Schilling! Time for a cleanout!

cdrkit: Debian's fork of cdrtools

Posted Sep 4, 2006 20:03 UTC (Mon) by erich (subscriber, #7127) [Link]

Why would you change the software? Change the user!

Instead of forking cdrecord, we could just fork the users!

cdrkit: Debian's fork of cdrtools

Posted Sep 14, 2006 18:25 UTC (Thu) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]

Users have a natural tendency to fork. Unfortunately, there seems to be some trouble getting the necessary pair of developers with the right attributes together to create and support the fork, and it take a lot of time and a lot of money to get a successful fork that doesn't depend on the initial pair of developers.