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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Why cdrkit? Why wodim? Why genisoimage? Because: + + - it won't tell you that you have no /dev/pg* device file thing foo, that you + have never seen and you will never need + + - it won't require to be executed as root, fail with obscure messages without + such permissions + + - it won't force you to wait 3 seconds every time you want to start, no matter + what you specify as gracetime= + + - it won't kill another burning process when you do -scanbus in another shell + + - it will let you specify your device directly in the way you know it, rather + than forcing some weird TARGET,BUS,LUN syntax with weird numbers + + - it will not wreak random havoc if you used spaces and not tabs in the config file + + - genisoimage won't stop accepting the well known option -L in the near future + + - genisoimage will stop on 2.1GiB large files rather than just "forgetting" + them and let you burn crap + + - users are respected and not used as pinballs between us and the OS kernel + developers + |