Posted by Jim at April 23rd, 2004

Much to my amusement, I’ve finally found a decent cd burning program for Windows XP that doesn’t cause you to fork out any money. It is called burnatonce.

Most other decent cd-burning programs are shareware that ceases to work after 30 days. The ones (for XP anyway) that aren’t shareware don’t seem to work well at all. I once tried one called “Deep Burner” that (despite my best efforts) simply would not burn an iso. I have 3 additions to my coaster collection that demonstrate its many problems.

The cd burning abilities of XP itself do not include burning images, just data.

That all being said, here’s the amusing thing about burnatonce–it’s just a gui for gpl’ed cd burning tools.

The gui itself isn’t gpl’ed, mind you, but I don’t really care. Just being able to use a decent burning tool that won’t nag me endlessly makes me very happy.

And thanks to burnatonce, I’ll be installing FreeBSD on my (soon to be former) Linux box in the next couple days. With any luck I’ll be running Open Office in English soon…