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Yet another bespoke file format that unsuccessfully attempts to futher the agenda of vendor lock-in: If you are running Windows, you need to purchase PowerISO from poweriso.com , if you are running X86-based Linux flavour, the same people offer a free program to read and write .daa files. Go figure...
A well-meaning person gives you a .nrg file and you will not invest in a piece of expensive bespoke software to read it. After all, you run free, open-source software and never have and never will pay for software. What to do with this stupid .nrg file?
Directly Burn DVD's from .avi files
Here is a quick and simple-to-use utility to convert an AVI file to the weird intermediate files and to then write them all to a DVD. It is called avi2dvd and is written in BASH-shell. It is unlikely to run on Windows.
More about it here at https://sourceforge.net/projects/avi2dvd
A Linux Distro for those 1990's Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 Sparc-II computers!
Blessed are the cheesemakers
Blessed are the meek
Blessed are the bignosesOooh, that's nice, isn't it?
- from Monty Python's The Life of Brian
In 2008 and I built a specialized Linux "distro"! BigNoseLinux is a binary Linux installation for Sun Ultra5/10 computers that hail from the late 1990's (!) and is based on the Gentoo Linux meta-distro. The BigNoseLinux distro is primarily intended to quickly create a web server using the classical LAMP-stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) with Joomla and a few other useful web-based management tools.
cdemu 0.8 was released for a 2.6.16 kernel. In the 2.6.17 kernel, the function generic_file_read() was replaced with the do_sync_read() function. Here are two approaches to solve this: