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el 2008-06-23 a las 14:58 Joerg Schilling escribió: |
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> Cdrecord is known to work with all drives and media. Other software |
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> may have problems with some drives or media. |
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that's exactly my personal experience. i won't comment about license |
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issues, because although i always try to support "free" software i have |
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to admit that i understand little or nothing about legal issues. |
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but let me share my personal experience: last year i bought a shiny |
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brand new laptop. i was very happy with it until i tried to record cds |
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or dvds. about 80% of my attempts ended in the trash can. at first i |
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thought i had bought a defective lot of media, but when the same |
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happened with different types of media i began to think that my drive |
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was either defective or not well supported by linux. both alternatives |
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were quite depressing... |
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after days of googling trying to find a solution, somehow i realized |
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that gentoo had installed a "fake" cdrecord instead of the "real" one. |
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i don't know how or why this happened. perhaps it was my fault but it |
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sure was not my intention. searching the gentoo site i found something |
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about license problems and how they had decided to replace it with a |
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different package and you could not even realize it. i erased the |
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ersatz, emerged the original cdrecord, and never had a problem again. |
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my drive was perfectly sane after all, and the media i bought was just |
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fine. |
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sorry for the rant, but i'm still annoyed by that incident. |
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