Nero is one of the most popular CD/DVD burning applications available for Windows users, in fact either it or Easy CD creator is usually bundled with new CD/DVD burners. Users contemplating switching to Linux instead of Windows now have another application that they can take with them to their new platform. Nero have just released their extremely popular application for Linux, and it is free for owners of the full version of Nero for Windows. I’ve read allot of stories over the last year or so about Macromedia, Adobe and others slowly porting their products to the Linux platform as well, so it is possible that one day you can swap to Linux and not have to learn any new applications at all. (unless you use MS Office as Microsoft are not likely to port their wares to Linux any time soon.) Having said that, for those of you considering the change, you need not spent a ton of cash buying applications for Linux as with a bit of searching you will find a myriad of free choices already available. (for example, OpenOffice.org can make PDF’s and is format compatible with MS Office, NVU is becoming a valid alternative to Frontpage/Dreamweaver, TheGIMP can do nearly everything Photoshop can do and there are around half a dozen Linux applications to write CD’s and DVD’s.) Most of the above alternatives have been ported to Windows as well, so you can try them for free before deciding whether to convert to Linux and get off the Microsoft gravy train for good.
INSERT: Newsforge has done a review of Nero for Linux and compared it to Kb3 (a free GPL burning application for Linux that has been out for ages) and surprisingly (or not), KB3 trumped Nero in pretty much every way.
