Brasero Burns Data, Not Time – or Piles of Discs

Written By
JMG
Jack M. Germain
May 12, 2010

“The ubiquitous CD/DVD platter may be on its way to Legacyville,
one town away from the FloppyTown and the once-popular ZipDisk
City. Large-capacity USB and micro disk storage media go where the
CD/DVD cannot go — small mobile gadgets.

“But for laptop and desktop storage and bulk transfer needs,
CD/DVD software is still indispensable. Nothing can bog down its
use more than poorly designed tools for burning content. Burning
files to CDs and DVDs is not something I do daily, so I sometimes
have to revisit a learning curve for using these apps. Routine file
backups I handle with two external USB hard drives. This relegates
CD/DVD burning activities to work-specific tasks and bulk portable
file transport of photo and music files along with creating
installation discs from ISO files.

“To handle these CD/DVD tasks, my Applications menu includes
apps such as GnomeBaker CD/DVD Writer, ISO Master, Gnome CD Master,
Xfburn and Pburn CD/DVD/Blu-ray Writer. These apps span two or
three Linux distro running on my various home office
computers.”

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Jack M. Germain

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