Gnometoaster Documentation
December 20. 1999

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An Overview of Gnometoaster

Gnometoaster is designed to be a complete CD creation package, it is as easy to use as possible, and offers many unique features. Gnometoaster currently runs under the Linux and FreeBSD Operating Systems, and is extensively tested under Debian Potato, RedHat 5.2, 6.0, SuSE 6.1 and Mandrake 6.0 under the Intel processor. More recently, support for FreeBSD has been added.

Gnometoaster uses the GTK toolkit used by Gnome and The Gimp, and is a free effort released under the Gnu GPL license.

Gnometoaster lets a user easily get the job done, using a nice graphical interface. Because it uses GTK, drag and drop from some file manager (such as Gnome Midnight Commander and Xftree) is permitted. In addition to this, Gnometoaster provides the following:

Hardware Requirements

Gnometoaster doesn't require any special hardware beyond the requirements of the CDR. As a general rule, a system that is to be used for burning should have lots of RAM, and a decent processor. A recommended configuration would be a Pentium/K6 with at least a 200MHz processor. 64+MB of RAM is also strongly recommended. IDE Burner's work, SCSI should be easier to set up (See Section 2.1 How to get Linux to recognize my CDR)

Software Requirements

Gnometoaster runs under Linux, and requires several packages to get at all of its functionality. The following packages MUST be installed:

Additionally, the following may be added:

A Special Note on Gnometoaster, GTK and Gnome

Gnometoaster, like Gnome, Gimp, and many other software packages, requires the GTK libraries to be installed on your system. These libraries provide applications with D&D support, a common look and feel, and many advanced widgets and features. However, Gnome is NOT required for using Gnometoaster. We recommend installing it, though, as it makes the program look nicer, and you can use nice features built in to Gnome, such as integration with its file manager.

Whether or not Gnome is installed, Gnometoaster will run. Also, just because you have Gnome installed, you don't have to use it as your desktop environment. It's quite possible to use Enlightenment as a Window Manager, and a combination of KFM, gmc or nothing running while using Gnometoaster.




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