On occasion I have the need to access a DVD from a netbook. Of course, netbooks don't have DVD drives. It looks like an external DVD burner may therefore be a good investment. I just looked a bunch of them up and they're pretty affordable:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=-1&isNodeId=1
These days can you pretty much get any external DVD drive and have it plug and play into Kubuntu? I'll be using it both in Kubuntu and when I boot into Windows 7.
I have another use for it as well. I intend to turn my other netbook into a Hackintosh. I've been reading up on how to do it. One way is to buy a regular OS X install disk from Apple and then to use it along with hacks available on the Internet, and voilà, you have a computer that thinks it's a Mac. The other is to download a pre-hacked copy of OS X and make an install DVD. Sounds convenient, but not so legal, so I'll stick with the first method.
In any event, that's the other thing I would need to use the external DVD burner for.
Can you pretty much grab any external DVD burner and have it be Kubuntu compatible or are there certain brands that serve us better?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=-1&isNodeId=1
These days can you pretty much get any external DVD drive and have it plug and play into Kubuntu? I'll be using it both in Kubuntu and when I boot into Windows 7.
I have another use for it as well. I intend to turn my other netbook into a Hackintosh. I've been reading up on how to do it. One way is to buy a regular OS X install disk from Apple and then to use it along with hacks available on the Internet, and voilà, you have a computer that thinks it's a Mac. The other is to download a pre-hacked copy of OS X and make an install DVD. Sounds convenient, but not so legal, so I'll stick with the first method.
In any event, that's the other thing I would need to use the external DVD burner for.
Can you pretty much grab any external DVD burner and have it be Kubuntu compatible or are there certain brands that serve us better?
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