Linux vs. CD & DVD

From: Andrew (andrew#_at_#orchids.org.au.#remove#)
Date: 01/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:37:03 +1100

 Why not port CD & DVD software into Linux?
 Ref: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/FreeBSD-CVS/src
usr.sbin/burncd
 http://www.prweb.com/releases/2002/11/prweb50389.htm

 Is there some reason Linux is unable to talk directly with IDE devices?
 While items like K3b look pretty, they require you to run emulations of
SCSI and butcher the logic of talking to the device you're trying to use.
Aparantly K3b still uses an ancient writing package (cdrecord), so ancient
that it's even had to create or use seperate software (dvd+rw-tools) just
to address DVD's?
 Meanwhile the world has continued to wait for these people to come into the
21st century where the writing softwares actually know about the existance
of IDE CD & DVD burners and the like. I personally would prefer a GUI CD
authoring application that allowed you to nominate which writing app you
would prefer to use (e.g. cdrecord or burncd), but otherwise why not just
import and make use of burncd? It's available & I'm sure Søren would not
mind the Linux world benefiting from his code, just don't remove his name
from source.
 - if you read his copyright notice you wil see it does not prevent you from
adding GNU licence requirements.

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