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On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:26:18AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

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> 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

>

> 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

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> 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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"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

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