Alternatives to the CD Record Program

http://libburn.pykix.org/ - libburn suite of tools with drop in replacements. Available in Fedora Extras. This one is written from scratch and would take time to mature and reach cdrecord's range of hardware devices support.
http://lwn.net/Articles/174031/ - Bero's fork - Appears to be dead currently.
http://debburn.alioth.debian.org/ - cdrkit. Debian's fork. Active and recent effort
http://freedrtools.freedesktop.org/wiki/ - Freedrtools. Vendor coordination for distribution specific patches. Appears to be dead currently.

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