Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 07, 2005 02:48 PM
I received NeroLinux gratis as a registered Nero 6 Ultra user. I have always found Nero to be the "go to" app for any task involving my CD burner in my alter ego as a Windows user. It's ease of use and familiar interface are a solid addition to my daily tasks of work and entertainment
I have found k3b to stable and reliable but have been frustrated by my inability to get it to burn at a rate higher than 12X. At that speed, I have found that it taxes my system enough that burning a disk in the background as I continue my routine to be laggy and the overall system degradation irritating. CPU utilization would max out and just opening a simple text file while burning a CD was significantly impacted.
I downloaded the Nero rpm and the application installed flawlessly on my Dell D600 Latitude. It installed an icon on my CD/DVD menu in both KDE and gnome. The first time I ran the application, it warned me that the applications SuSE Watcher and SuSe Plugger were running and could interfere with Nero's disk writing operations. I choose to ignore the warning to test it in my normal working environment. After loading and searching for my CDRW, it was unable to detect it. I suspected a permissions issue and confirmed it with a quick check of the well written help file. After editing the menu item to run as root, it found my CDRW and presented me with an interface that is very familar and all of the tools and options were just where I expected to find them. I choose the burn image menu option, navigated to SuSE 9.1 Personal Edition iso on my file server and clicked on the burn CD icon without adjusting any setting from the default. After approximately 15 secs to load the buffer, the burn began at 24X, the first time I have been able to use my drive at its rated speed on the Linux platform. CPU utilization never topped 60%, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was no system degradation at all. One 2-3 second skip in my streaming audio was the only indication that the burn session began. After confirming a successful write by booting up to the install routine I compiled a MP3 disk and burned it at 24X just as easily and with the same success I have come to expect from Nero.
I am impressed with the over-all polish and and obvious attention to what Nero's customers have come to expect from a top of the line product.
My only reservation to rating it as a perfect fit on my desktop is the run as root requirement. K3B is capable of writing finding and using my CDRW without this requirement and it perhaps future releases of NeroLinux will address this. As such, my son will continue to use k3b to write his musical choices to disk while I now have a choice of options. Would I have paid the asking price for the proprietary software over the open source k3b? Probably not. But since I own a license for Nero, NeroLinux is a no-brainer for me.
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Re:NeroLinux on SuSE 9.1
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 07, 2005 02:48 PMI have found k3b to stable and reliable but have been frustrated by my inability to get it to burn at a rate higher than 12X. At that speed, I have found that it taxes my system enough that burning a disk in the background as I continue my routine to be laggy and the overall system degradation irritating. CPU utilization would max out and just opening a simple text file while burning a CD was significantly impacted.
I downloaded the Nero rpm and the application installed flawlessly on my Dell D600 Latitude. It installed an icon on my CD/DVD menu in both KDE and gnome. The first time I ran the application, it warned me that the applications SuSE Watcher and SuSe Plugger were running and could interfere with Nero's disk writing operations. I choose to ignore the warning to test it in my normal working environment. After loading and searching for my CDRW, it was unable to detect it. I suspected a permissions issue and confirmed it with a quick check of the well written help file. After editing the menu item to run as root, it found my CDRW and presented me with an interface that is very familar and all of the tools and options were just where I expected to find them. I choose the burn image menu option, navigated to SuSE 9.1 Personal Edition iso on my file server and clicked on the burn CD icon without adjusting any setting from the default. After approximately 15 secs to load the buffer, the burn began at 24X, the first time I have been able to use my drive at its rated speed on the Linux platform. CPU utilization never topped 60%, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was no system degradation at all. One 2-3 second skip in my streaming audio was the only indication that the burn session began. After confirming a successful write by booting up to the install routine I compiled a MP3 disk and burned it at 24X just as easily and with the same success I have come to expect from Nero.
I am impressed with the over-all polish and and obvious attention to what Nero's customers have come to expect from a top of the line product.
My only reservation to rating it as a perfect fit on my desktop is the run as root requirement. K3B is capable of writing finding and using my CDRW without this requirement and it perhaps future releases of NeroLinux will address this. As such, my son will continue to use k3b to write his musical choices to disk while I now have a choice of options. Would I have paid the asking price for the proprietary software over the open source k3b? Probably not. But since I own a license for Nero, NeroLinux is a no-brainer for me.
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