Musings of an OpenSolaris Technical Writing Intern Mark Settle's Mighty Pen

Finally, my last observation about the Get It page:

The site does a good job of describing how to use the commands in Solaris to burn a CD, but many people don't have a Solaris-attached CD burner on hand. I went on the prowl for some Vista-based freeware, but could only find shareware. Some of these utilities won't handle files larger than 300MB, while others don't work after a seven day trial period. Here's the rundown:

• DropToCD
• Magic ISO
• Nero
• PowerISO

Further complicating things, the different ISO programs use slightly different lingo to describe the same processes. Phrases like mapping, writing, imaging and burning seem to be used interchangeably at times, but not at others. I imagine that most users don't have an issue with this step. If possible, we should highlight a preferred utility for burning a LiveCD in XP/Vista/Leopard/Linux and provide further instruction.