live-cd distro that writes to cd

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:33:37PM -0500, Matt Cahill wrote:
> A free frisbee (or optionally, a throwing star) :)
> 
> Seriously, it's a good point. I wonder if DVD *isn't* the bally-hoo'd
> future standard it's cracked-up to be, what with flash-drive prices
> dropping as their storage potential exponentially increases.

Well pure DVD-R/DVD+R is an awful lot cheaper than flash of the same
capacity, and has many uses flash doesn't (like say making a movie your
DVD player can play).  There is a difference betwen $1.00 and $500 for
4GB storage.  I suspect the DVD reads (and possibly writes) faster than
the flash drive too, although probably not much.  DVD-RAM media on the
other hand is a lot more than DVD-R media, although it is reusable.  It
is also quite a bit more expensive than DVD+RW and DVD-RW in my
experience.

Lennart Sorensen
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