I think starting at the base with cdrecord and then going to a GUI once you need something quicker would best. Something that hasn't been covered is cdrecords protability. The guy who makes it has ported it to just about every possible operating system including win32. I have used it quite a bit over the years and have never found a use for a GUI. Mkisofs on the other hand is quite a pig to work with, I always seem to forget basic switches (like -J) and end up with a ugly image. I've had good luck mastering images using cdbakeoven but that was mostly because it great support for mastering audio cds. cdbakeoven: http://cdbakeoven.sf.net of course that's kde but hey, I was always on teh side of kde for the desktop wars. Mainly because they had a stable distrib first and it shows. Heck I can still make the gnome file manager (midnight commander I think) crash on occasion. I could also do a short demo on burning with cdrecord as well if no noe else wants to do it. Justin ------------------------------------ This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header.