Nero Linux is a
port
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of
Nero Burning ROM
Nero Burning ROM, commonly called Nero, is an optical disc authoring program from Nero AG. The software is part of the Nero Multimedia Suite but is also available as a stand-alone product. It is used for burning and copying optical discs such a ...
developed for various
Linux distribution
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s.
In March 2005,
software publisher Nero AG
Nero AG (known as Ahead Software AG until 2005) is a German computer software company that is especially well known for its CD/DVD/ BD burning suite, '' Nero Burning ROM''. The company's main product is Nero 2019, a piece of software that com ...
offered free licenses for Nero Linux to users of the
Microsoft Windows version. Applying the
GTK+
GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and prop ...
widget toolkit
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Most wid ...
, Glibc, and libstdc++, Nero Linux reproduced most of the features of Nero Burning ROM. Nero AG published the final update to Nero Linux in December 2010.
Supported distributions
The list of supported distributions:
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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (or higher)
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Fedora
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7.0 (or higher)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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5.0 (or higher)
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SUSE Linux 10.3 (or higher)
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Ubuntu
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7.04 (or higher)
Version history
See also
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Nero (software suite)
Nero Multimedia Suite is a software suite for Microsoft Windows that is developed and marketed by Nero AG. Version 2017 of this product was released in October 2016.
Version differences
Since its Version 10, Nero provides two variants of the su ...
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Nero Digital Nero Digital is a brand name applied to a suite of MPEG-4-compatible video and audio compression codecs developed by Nero AG of Germany and Ateme of France. The audio codecs are integrated into the ''Nero Digital Audio+'' audio encoding tool for ...
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Nero AAC Codec
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List of optical disc authoring software
References
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2005 software
Linux CD/DVD writing software
Software that uses GTK