Linux for CD Duplication Tower

[dgouldin]

I'm looking for a Linux distro to use for a cd duplcation tower. Right now it'd just be a small 3-burner setup using the onboard ide controllers but in the future I might want to expand using a promise or other ide controller. It'd be going on a relatively slow machine and I'll only need it for this 1 specific task. I'm not familiar enough with Linux at the moment to be comfortable recompiling the kernel, but I could get there if I need to (and I probably will, wont I). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Brazen]

Any distro should do ya good. But for a linux n00b, Ubuntu seems to be the defacto standard. I personally prefer Fedora though. You'll use Gnomebaker to burn CDs under the gnome desktop environment (the default for both Fedora and Ubuntu).

As a bonus, you should be able to set Gnomebaker as your shell, so when you log in, basically Gnomebaker pops right up and that is the only thing you have access to. Set it to automatically log in, and then all you have to do is turn the computer on. You will have to google around for how to set the shell to an application and how to auto logon (or maybe n0c or Nothinman will stop in a tell you ).

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: dgouldin
I'm looking for a Linux distro to use for a cd duplcation tower. Right now it'd just be a small 3-burner setup using the onboard ide controllers but in the future I might want to expand using a promise or other ide controller. It'd be going on a relatively slow machine and I'll only need it for this 1 specific task. I'm not familiar enough with Linux at the moment to be comfortable recompiling the kernel, but I could get there if I need to (and I probably will, wont I). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

In the 4 years of using Linux I have never recompiled a kernel. Most distros use modules for nearly everything, eliminating the need to recompile.

As for which distro, any distro will do, though I would recommend a light (on resources) window manager such as Blackbox or IceWM.