CD Writer Opinion please

[Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>]

Hi All,

I have to choose between the two CD writers (they're all I can get
here...)

A Phillips internal IDE  and A Hi-val internal IDE,

I tend to think that the Phillips is a better buy, regarding
compatibility with linux,

would I just work with the drive as I do another hard drive, i.e. in
terms of
saving stuff to a CD-RW or a CD-R,

is XRoast the best software to use for mastering CD's under linux? Where
can I get it?

Thanks,

Ahbaid.