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Such sad news.

I remember him from cdrtools. It was amazing because I recall that it ran everywhere in the late 90s. SunOS, Solaris, DEC UNIX, FreeBSD, Linux, etc. That was remarkable for a piece of software that interacted with hardware.



One of the main reasons I started using Linux was to reliably burn CDs, and cdrecord was part of that.

The same hardware on Windows was very hard to dedicate enough power to the recording software in the 95/98 era.


There was also a Windows port of cdrecord that worked. I remember using it.


Indeed. I still use the Windows port of CDRtools to burn CDs in Windows; CDs burned with Microsoft’s built in tools can have issues (such as, if I’m not careful, burning with a UDF filesystem which some CD players will not recognize; also the Windows CD burner can have issues burning a CD which is sector-by-sector the maximum size a given CD blank can fit) which are best fixed by using Schilling’s software instead.




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