Alternative to k3b? or why is everything soooooo slow?

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

Bruce Labitt wrote:

> [...]
> When I used k3b to burn a SuSE9.3 iso it only ran at a burn rate of 
> 0.4X.  This is somewhat irritating since it is rated as at least a 8x 
> drive when burning +R media.  Worse than taking 2.5 hours to burn a 
> potential coaster is the fact that my system clock was more than 1 
> hour off [slow] after burning a full dvd!

Just for the record: I'd been running Debian (Libranet), and getting 
much the same results.  I just upgraded to Ubuntu, and now I'm running 
at ~2.25x.  A gig in DVD in roughly six minutes.  I'm using k3b, just 
like I had been -- so, either Ubuntu has some nicer defaults, or 
cdrecord (or somesuch derivative) has something else tweaked.  In other 
words, don't despair, just yet.  It's possible, even if I don't know 
exactly what fixed it.

Happy holidays, all!

-Ken