I use 3.1 for burning with a USB Sony Spressa on a Win95 system at my work. Usually use X cd roaster. Checked out K3b. Both work great. Take the one that you like. Burned more that 50 platters with only one or two failures.

Want to be able to use 3.2. Okay I'll admit it, 3.2 is prettier. Now prettier does not work harder, but prettier turns heads!

Sadly, with 3.2 X cd roaster fails to start, K3b burns but fails to fixate (goes on forever, well at least longer than my patience.) The resulting disks are readable, but produce errors.

Both live cds are running under KDE.

Most lately tried the 03/30/03 download.

Have not checked it on a system with IDE burner yet because most are single CD drive systems (my Knoppix cd is in the drive), and I am not comfortable with a 3.2 HD install on a system with a single cd burner yet. I have done a HD install, but that system does not have a burner. (To repeat what others have said - make extra partitions to save your data - makes it easier to upgrade without losing everything.)

Please comment - Can I burn OK with these programs under KDE and a HD install? If you installed it and everything works, let me know. What do to I need to add or turn on for this USB device to work. I use the Sony burner with a Knoppix Thinkpad with a HD 3.1 install, and it works well. I plan to leave everything as it is for now. I see the CD creeping up in size each new release. It is hard to select the software that the please everyone!

I appreciate the effort that has gone into Knoppix.