How to burn a cd in Linux?

[SnowEagle]

I would like to buy a cd-burner and make it work in Linux. I am pretty new to Linux, so my questions are:

Is it easy to config a cd-rw in linux to work? Do I need to recompile the kernel or do other things?
What brand cd-rw should I buy for Linux? Someone are talking about the Que! cd-rw in the hotdeals forum, sounds it works well. Any one has experience with it in Linux?


Thanks a lot!

 

[zoiks]

you turn linux on and put the cd in the drive and then set it on fire...!!
actually you dont need to have to compile anything in the kernel. you can use xcdroast or something similar to burn the cd. You can check out linuxapps.com to find the applications.

 

[Maetryx]

Maetryx here,
Linux has a cdrecord command which I used with great success to make Mandrake 8.1 BETA 2 CDs with the ISO files that I downloaded (both 640MB files).

From the command prompt, type cdrecord --help