GUI? Brasario is what it is called... It is the default app to burn CD's in
Hardy.

Yes, I just tried to use it. It's giving me an error msg when I try to copy by
track!

File "Track%201.wav" can't be opened.
Invalid parameters.

When I invoke the copy CD it disallows selection of the same drive (I have only
one) to receive the copy--only allowing creation of a file image!

I'm not that familiar with Ubuntu, but in your situation, I believe that you
will have to first copy the CD contents to your hard drive and then create your
CD from the hard drive copy. The copy process is called ripping and the CD
process is called burning. If you want to compress the tracks, look for info on
MP3. Sorry I can't help with specifics.

I use Grip,
ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php

He was asking to make straight copies, not Rips.

Brasario would be the correct program in Gnome, as David stated.

I've often wondered if there is truly a performance/resources hit, in
reality, if using KDE programs inside Gnome Ubuntu...as I've become
very fond of K3b (KDE Burn Baby Burn) for burning.

try it. I have a preference for several kde apps in my gnome
enviroment. Kopete, knode, Kaffeine amarok and Kpowersave.

I DO use K3b and Amarok no matter which desktop. Apparently you
haven't noticed any ill-effects from running KDE programs in a
different than KDE environment either?

I suspect this was a nit-picky deal where the bloat of adding KDE apps
to a Gnome environment is more theoretical than reality. Probably
paying too much attention to the mini-distro creators, DSL, antiX,
Puppy, etc., defending why they left out certain apps. ;-)

it might well be significant on slower processors/machines with less
ram. or there might be folks that need nanoseconds.

For myself i found that I loathed the desktop and environment but some
of the apps are clearly superior .... its all about choice.

This may seem odd, but I have to ask: how in the world did you know
that "grip" copies CDs? I never would have guessed that in a million
years.

A similar problem exists with many other programs that accompany and/or
are available for a distro.

One could open two terminal windows and do an "ls" in one and do a
"man <xyz>" in the other window against all <xyz> displayed by "ls",
but that'll take awhile. And there's often multiple programs which
all purport to do the same thing, so which does one use?

Contrast that with many programs whose purpose is easily recognized or
discerned by their names, for example sendmail, cdrecord, xterm, etc.

If your only option is "create image" then do that, then burn the image to a
new CD.

You can do it quite easily in K3b or Brasero. In K3b, go to Tools, Copy CD on
the menubar. In Brasero, Click on the Disk Copy button in the main window. If
you get errors try adjusting the copy speed (slower speed) or clean the CD. If
you have never used either program before, you may have to check the settings.

That is not necessary. Linux can rip CDs (and DVDs) and needs lame, just as
Windows does to produce mp3s. However, Linux can copy both DVDs and CDs without
this intermediary step. It can use disk at one (dao), copy track at once (tao)
or raw. It can also make ISO and other kinds of image files and shrink DVDs from
double density to fit on a normal DVD disk. In short, you can do anything in
Linux that you can do in Windows as far as burning and copying goes.

I have 8.04 and need to make an ISO CD. I've looked, but I haven't been able to
find anything. Would you please point me in the right direction. Thanks.

There are specific programs such as ISOMaster which is available from
Getdeb.net. You can also do this from either Brasero or K3b (burners that come
with Gnome or KDE but will run in either desktop). The trick is not to burn it
to your DVD drive, but as an image file. It is done at the last stage of the
process. Add your files then select burn and change the device to an ISO image
file.