What is Paranoia IVs current development status?
Paranoia IV has been on haitus for several years while Xiph.Org concentrated on other projects such as Ogg. It was originally intended to be little more than a more cross-platform update of Paranoia-III that included other devices; although the project drew some outside interest, it’s not clear there’s any great need for it. Since Paranoia III was originally declared ‘finished’ in 1999 (subsequent releases have mostly just been to fix bugs and keep up with kernel changes), a number of features that once existed only on very expensive CDROM drives have become more widespread. In particular, drives today are much more capable of fine-grained reporting of media damage. Thus Paranoia IV is now intended to be an update of Paranoia III that improves error handling and reconstruction ability. Questions about using Paranoia and cdparanoia Requirements to run cdparanoia 10 • A CDDA capable CDROM drive (in 2008, virtually all CDROM drives are) • Linux 2.0 through 2.2: • kernel support for the pa
