Sunday, November 23, 2008

Re: [BLUG] internal DVD drive

On Sunday 23 November 2008 11:45:16 am Mark Warner wrote:
> Andrew Dabrowski wrote:
> > I was over at Best Buy last night checking out the internal DVD-R
> > drives. I saw Pioneer, Sony, and LG (?). Does anyone have advice about
> > which will work best with Ubuntu Intrepid? Thanks.
>
> Probably any will work fine. That being said, I'd stay away from Sony --
> they're known for pulling all sorts of DRM related shenanigans (probably
> nothing that would cause a problem in Linux, but it's the principle).
>
> LGs are fine, and probably are the cheapest.

I have a sony drive that is really a lite-on drive I believe it is just
rebranded sony.

but I agree it's the prinicipal of the matter
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Re: [BLUG] internal DVD drive

Andrew Dabrowski wrote:
> I was over at Best Buy last night checking out the internal DVD-R
> drives. I saw Pioneer, Sony, and LG (?). Does anyone have advice about
> which will work best with Ubuntu Intrepid? Thanks.

Probably any will work fine. That being said, I'd stay away from Sony --
they're known for pulling all sorts of DRM related shenanigans (probably
nothing that would cause a problem in Linux, but it's the principle).

LGs are fine, and probably are the cheapest.

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Mark Warner
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I was over at Best Buy last night checking out the internal DVD-R
drives. I saw Pioneer, Sony, and LG (?). Does anyone have advice about
which will work best with Ubuntu Intrepid? Thanks.