I am proud to announce the release of K3b 1.0. After years and years of development, all the sweat (actually in the summer it can get sticky in front of the screen), all the tears (ok, admittedly, not that many), and all the countless hours I spent on a single application finally we have what I think is worth the big 1. K3b has come a long way since the early days in 1998 when it started as a dummy project for me to learn C++ and Qt development. The reason for that (besides my hacking) is the amazing feedback I got from the open source community and especially all the KDE worshippers. Give yourself a hand. Without all of you K3b would not have lived this long. I also want to thank Mandriva for supporting the K3b development these last few months. Their KDE support makes a big difference. A ChangeLog is also available.
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You said you are proud to announce the release of K3b 1.0.
I say we, as a community, are proud of what you've achieved; of your vision and the persistence you showed to make it a reality.
Feel proud, we're proud of K3b and specially we're proud of you!
Thanks!
Easily beats any commercial suite on the market in terms of its feature set and ease of use.
Thanks for making everyday life easier for us KDE users!
Original, usable, intuitive, powerful, congratulations to the team!
K3b has always been a special app for me. It might very well be the application that kept me from switching back to Windows. When I tried to switch to Linux around the SuSe 8.x time the biggest obstacle was the fact that there was no decent CD burning application. The only application with an acceptable interface was CD Bakeoven. But you could not burn CD audio directly from MP3. I just could not believe there is not even a decent app to burn Audio CD's. I considered switching back to Windows because this was minimum functionality required for me to use KDE full-time. Soon after I discovered K3b which was then in its infancy. Anyway - it already worked great. I agree to many others who stated that K3b deserved the 1.0 long ago IMHO.
K3b is really a special application in OSS because it just never fails. It does exactly what you want and expect. Even with seldom-used functions. I never tried to burn a Video-DVD. Recently, a colleague wanted to burn one and his Windows system had lots of unexplicable errors and problems. He asked me if I could burn this under Linux. I was sceptical but tried it anyway. This went so flawlessly it's simply amazing. Thanks a lot for all the hard-work that went into this rock-stable product.
Congratulations!
I have used K3b since I started Linux. I just took it for granted.
Your screen is one of the best from a User's point of view.
thanks
This application has supported me and my family with multiple s/w Cds and DVDs and video DVDs of weddings, Christenings and family get-togethers, with very few problems (most of which were mine). Carry on and enjoy life.
George
Its a pity that after all the stirling work of sebastian he cannot sit back and bask in the glory of a job well done. I suppose its the nature of computing that components like cdrecord and DCOP are superseeded and heroes who take on such great projects as K3b cannot stop maintaining them.
Well done, K3b has worked flawlessly for me ever since the earliest version.
Ken
What a fantastic effort is K3B - thanks so much for seeing it through to v1 - it's people like you who are the true hero's in this open source world, against a monopolistic evil giant that will never get a penny from me to pump up their bank accounts - thanks again for making this work in Linux!!!!
K3b is a killer app!
Just went thru the announcement at k3b site :) however I miss a description about the all-rewritten video capabilities of the application... has he forgotten!?
You championed this project in an excellent manner.
Great job and continue success.
Thank you very very very very very very much for this great app!
I'm a DBA professionally, I know as much about computers in general as the next geek in line. I'm an expert nowhere other than databases however. About two years ago my gentoo box pooped on an emerge sync && emerge -DNu world, major system update for none gentoo peeps, and I got seriously frustrated and didn't want to spend 3 days rebuilding my box, so I installed xp. I used it for a few weeks until I need to burn a cd, nothing fancy, just burn a simple cd. I downloaded every program possible and even PAID for one and couldn't get it done, I finally ended up re-installing linux JUST to use k3b to burn a stupid cd.
It's that amazing of an application, I rarely burn cd's, never dvd's, but I am dependant enough on k3b that it alone keeps me stuck to linux!!! I'm a huge open source proponent anyways, but I like things that "just work", I am currently an Ubuntu user, it's the first binary distro to "just works" like I want it to enough to get away from gentoo. I started out on LFS actually, but whatever thems is details about me life that no one cares aboot :)
My point is simple, k3b is as close to perfect as perfect gets, I think I'm still using 0.12, and I can't for the life of me imagine what you've done to it to make it 1.0, shoulda been 1.0 a long time ago. Thank you, thank you, and did I mention thank you???
Sebastian! k3b is an amazingly great piece of software. Dear, you've shown some closed-source applications, what quality software looks like!
As we use k3b in our business we already donated some money, but besides from this we want to say "thanks" for your much appreciated work.
Hahaha I know it's lame, but I had to say it. All this praise must be bad for Sebastians ego.
But seriously, I have to agree with everybody here. K3b rocks. Whenever I try to show someone (a windoze user) how cool linux is, K3b is the first app I show them. And it only got a '1' now? Rubbish, it's been worth a '1' for a long time. You could teach a lot of people about UI design as well.
Oki
What can I say? K3b is awesome and since the first versions it made a world of a different with the until then existing crap^H^H^H^H software on linux for burning.
I want to congratulate you one more time.
I want to ask you something: AFAIK there is support from the command line tools for Blu-Ray burning. Have you planned to include this support to K3B?
Congratulations and Thank You!
k3b must be the only reason I install these (damn ;)) kde libraries. Other than that, I'm more of a gtk person.
Thanks :)