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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