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. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
