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dvd+rw-tools Ported to FreeBSD
Dan writes "Matthew Dillon has finished porting Andy Polyakov's excellent dvd+rw-tools to FreeBSD. These tools support DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW format dvd burners, including the popular Sony 500A, which he has bought himself. He says that these tools should work on a wider variety of burners than the half-broken GNU dvdrecord tools work on."
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erm.. there was a sarcasm tag in there... whoops
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No, it isn't funny. That means that most programmers are using OS specific syscalls in their programs. It's a terrible thing to do, yet the Linux community does it constantly...
Release a program that only works on the BSDs, and watch the Linux users come out in arms like their first born has been slaughtered... I really hate hypocrites.
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IIRC the growisofs tool that's the core of the dvd+rw-tools is really just a frontend to dd(1), and you don't really need it, *IF* you have a decent driver that allows dd(1)ing a ISO image to it.
Tried it some time ago under SuSE 8.something, worked.
- Hubert
They aren't hypocrites, because the aren't even the same people. I'm so tired of hearing about contrived groups of people being hypocrites because they don't all say exactly the same thing. It's stupid to argue about strawmen.
Release a program that only works on the BSDs, and watch the Linux users come out in arms like their first born has been slaughtered...
I did that once by accident. Usually I test my software on a Linux distro before making a release, but I didn't do it once. I had QNX installed on my extra partition and didn't want to wipe it out. So I just released it.
I realized my mistake about twenty minutes later when the bug reports started coming in...
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You are now saying that there are not ANY programmers that have written non-portable programs, that have also complained when a program didn't work on their OS? I would beg to differ.
You are also saying that there are no people that promote and/or support a Linux program that don't care that it doesn't run on another system, but are upset when a program doesn't work on their system?
I beg to differ.
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That means that most programmers are using OS specific syscalls in their programs.
Not necessarily. I count 8817 ports in the tree right now, of which only 4663 have local patches.
In many cases, the "port" is used as nothing more than a convenient front-end to the package system.
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Furthermore, most of the local patches only exist to make the port follow the FreeBSD file heirarchy and play nice with the pkg system.
Yes, but that isn't actually porting software, it's just a matter of making a port out of it.
Besides, I never said that all software was system specific, but a LOT of it is. Additionally, many programs that were originally OS specific, but someone wrote patches, and the author integrated them into the main tree instead of requiring patches in the port.
Another instance of the word "port" being insanely over-used...
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True. On the other hand, the word "port" has gone from verb to noun, and is now being verbified again. That is to say, "to port" means to fix operating system-specific code; "a port" is either the result of porting something, or anything in the ports tree; and "to portify" means to add the necessary wrappers to make some code fit into the ports tree.
Isn't the English language great?
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May god help the man who ports the software that listens on a TCP port, for requests to query a router NIC port... Especially if it is then used by the port authority in Portland, OR.
Maybe it can check all the port holes on the port side of the ship, but, of course, only while the ship is in port.
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What is so bad in cdrecord (modified to be dvdrecord)? I'm not trolling, I'm curious.
:wq
Actually, it would be better off.
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I am a huge FreeBSD advocate, and I use it all the time, and the only major things I have seen that may not have happened without Linux, were the great Xfree Window Managers, along with the software that uses the X Window system, GTK+, Netscape, QT, etc, etc. That and maybe the publicity.
Otherwise I'd say the *BSD community has been moving along fine, and wuold have with or without the existance of Linux or GNU. Look at applications such as MySQL, Apache, and clustering software. People have been using BSD since before the invention of Linux, somehow they survived without "ersatz hacks" (crazy german) If a troll is killed by a falling tree in the forest, will anybody miss him?
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"Otherwise I'd say the *BSD community has been moving along fine, and wuold have with or without the existance of Linux or GNU."
Bla bla.
Then *BSD should create their own portable C/C++ compiler. Its a fact that *BSD systems depend on the GNU project.
but I really would like to know. Has anyone tried these tools under cygwin?
It's good to see Matt Dillon still being productive in the FreeBSD space.
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