It does DVD:s also [LWN.net]

It does DVD:s also

Posted Aug 13, 2009 7:33 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: The unending story of cdrtools by rsidd
Parent article: The unending story of cdrtools

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).

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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.