[plug] Nero launches a version for Linux.

[Carl Gherardi]

Hey all,

> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:41:05 +0800, James Nell <jnell at konnect.com.au> wrote:
> > Nero, the popular CD and DVD burning software, has now released a version for
> > Linux. They have various flavours to cater for various distro's.
> >
> > Full details and download : http://www.nero.com/en/NeroLINUX.html
> >

I've been impressed by this.

When downloading you have the choice of a single rpm or deb file,
unlike most commercial vendors who either make you use a custom
installer, or choose one of 15 different versions, specifically aimed
at each distro version. Big tick for providing a .deb aswell as rpm.

When installing the rpm on my Fedora rawhide box, it warned me that
the system was uknown hence unsupported, but continued to install -
warnng me i'd need to manually install the NEROLinux.desktop file
manually after the installation.

Looking at the scripts it runs, the scripts are clean, and they dont
do anything anoying.

Has worked without fault burning data cds so far. No alsa support,
uses 3 party freeware utils for audio encoding (with defaults for ogg
- something missing under Windows) and freedb.org for cddb lookups.

I hope Nero does move to sell software for Linux, NerovisionExpress is
the only application under windows I use.

Carl