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The unending story of cdrtoolsThe unending story of cdrtoolsPosted Aug 13, 2009 5:04 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)In reply to: The unending story of cdrtools by flewellyn Parent article: The unending story of cdrtools
Schilling is obviously clueless about what the GPL implies. Given the number of Linux programmers now employed by several companies, one would think writing a complete replacement for cdrtools, free of Schilling's code, would be within the realm of possibility. (Soren Schmidt's "burncd" from FreeBSD could be a starting point, though it is admittedly much more limited than cdrtools).
On the other hand, it is now many months since I wanted to burn a CD, and with USB media becoming more and more common for both data and music distribution, I suspect the importance of cdrtools is going to decrease. For a long time a huge limitation of linux (and other open-source operating systems) was the inability to use a CD-RW as a floppy, using the UDF filesystem in read-write mode. But nobody seems to do that anymore. Memory sticks are more compact, faster and have larger capacity. So all of this may become irrelevant soon...
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The unending story of cdrtools Posted Aug 13, 2009 5:58 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
It does DVD:s also Posted Aug 13, 2009 7:33 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] suspect the importance of cdrtools is going to decrease.I also rarely burn a CD, but I frequently burn DVD:s, usually with wodim from cdrkit. It works perfectly, so I'm not sure having the development of the cdrkit fork stalled is any big deal: it is a solved problem as far as CDs and DVDs go. New media like Blu-Ray might of course need changes, I don't know what is the state of Blu-Ray burning on Linux, as I have no such hardware yet (but might well have in a year or two when the cost becomes reasonable).
It does DVD:s also Posted Aug 13, 2009 8:48 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
We provide CDs to our customers rather than USB media. They cost less.
Furthermore, booting from a CD works just about anywhere and is pretty easy to explain. Booting from a USB media works quite differently in every BIOS.
Oh, and I use wodim and never had a problem.
There are a lot of kinks in CD recording Posted Aug 13, 2009 8:02 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]
Mainly caused by multiple vendor implementations and a large variety of media types. Although cdrkit has trundled along I'm not surprised it's not getting the attention of other more sexy projects. The work is generally boring and requires having a large number of different vendors hardware to test well.
Having said all that and as others have pointed out I can't actually recall the last time I needed to burn a CD. I certainly have two very dusty spindles of CDs and DVDs in my office.
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