13 Jan
2013
13 Jan
'13
8:45 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:26:18AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
author. Mr. Schilling (cdrtools) is known world wide
for being, shall we
say, uncooperative. I believe he also IIRC changed the cdrtools license 3,
maybe 4 years back to one less compatible with the GPL, the CDDL, but which
he claims gives even more flexibility to the users. However I would
recommend that a first hand account of the dust up be read at
<http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html>
and that your own conclusions be drawn from that.
Certainly to get his view, but would you ask the owner of an egg farm if
eggs were bad for you?
I personally think that he is correct in the attitude
that the software be
run as root because linux filters what the user can do in an attempt to
access that hardware. I do know that my burn failure rate went through to
roof when I switched to ubuntu a while back, mainly because my CNC
machinery all runs LinuxCNC which ATM runs only on a certain, very heavily
modified for real time use via the RTAI patches, ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS kernel.
k3b is using wodim, which explains that. Running it as root brings up all
sorts of warnings that invite the user to change permissions, which when
done, puts you into a dependency hell where nothing works. Thats BS. But
lets lay the blame on wodim's authors for creating that hell.
Maybe it's an Ubuntu quirk? On Squeeze, I run wodim as root with no
problems at all. Mind you, that is invoking wodim directly from the
command line.
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