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If you are Linux user from couple of years then you may know about 'remastersys' program, which is a free and open source program for Debian, Ubuntu-based, Linux Mint or derivative software systems that can: Create a customized Live CD/Live USB (a remaster) of Debian and its derivatives. Back up an entire system, including user data, to an installable Live CD/DVD. The last stable release of remastersys was in 2012 which means three years ago.
The people of Pinguy OS distribution forked this great project called it "pinguybuilder" and made it available again for Ubuntu and its derivatives. It can create a livecd of the installed system and works with Ubuntu and its derivatives systems. You can either make a distributable livecd or make a backup of your entire system, so you can use it later if something goes wrong with your operating system.
It has front-end GUI; full EFI support including EFI system partition; Populate pool folder with grub-efi for offline installing; Update grub entry with the named used for the CD label; Uses XZ to compress the filesystem.squashfs for smaller ISO size.




Note: There are two versions available (Version 3.* works with Ubuntu and its derivative systems 14.04) and (Version 4.* works with Ubuntu and its derivative systems 15.04+)


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Install Silicon Empire and K3b Burner in Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives

There are applications available for Linux which can burn Blu-ray discs. Ubuntu has installed Brasero burner by default but I don't know if that burns Blu-ray discs. K3b and Silicon Empire burners works fine for me in this case, these two burners does everything what you expect for Nero.

1) Silicon Empire Burner

Silicon Empire is set of tools to Burn, Copy, Backup, Manage and so on... your optical discs like CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays. When you start working with silicon Empire Just feels everything done easily and quickly with high quality. You Burn, Copy, Mount and so on... your discs in few clicks and short time.
silicon empire

silicon empire

Features:
  • Cdrtools Burn Engine: Highly portable CD/DVD/BluRay command line recording software.
  • MySQL Database: The world’s most popular open source database system.
  • Qt4 Cross Platform: Cross Platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software.
  • Hardware Abstract Layer: Use HAL (Hardware Abstract Layer) to found and detects hardware devices.
  • Image Mounter: Mount/Unmount Discs Images with help of fuseiso technology. It’s fast, easy and high quality mounting.
  • Multimedia System: They are Applications that allow you to play your favorite musics ,see your pictures and in future play your videos.
  • Animated User Interface: Silicon has beautiful User Interface. It’s use many animations effects to make silicon User Interface The more beautiful.
  • Themes, Icons, Plugins, Colors: It’s high customizable. You can make customize silicon with Style themes that make with css, Icon theme or color themes.
  • Drag & Drop: Support Drag & Drop functions in the main menu and most of the applications.
  • Multi Task and Application Manager: This is a technology that runs and manage number of Special Applications (Not Process) on the silicon Empire.
  • Burn and Copy Optical Discs: Silicon Empire Can Burn and Copy Optical Discs with help of the cdr-tools engine. Because The Disc Burner of the silicon Empire builds on the low level layers , silicon can Manage and Queuing overlapping burn or copy processes.

To install Silicon Empire in Ubuntu 12.04/Linux Mint 13 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:


2) K3b Burner

K3b is a full-featured, easy to use CD and DVD burner, copier, ripper and more for Linux, basically it is optimized for KDE but it works in all desktop environments. K3b is written in the C++ programming language and uses the Qt GUI toolkit. K3b can also burn data CDs that support Linux/Unix based OS, Windows, DOS, Very Large Files (UDF), Linux/Unix + Windows, Rock Ridge, and Joliet file systems.
k3b burner

To burn Blu-ray follow these steps:
Settings > Configure K3b > Advanced > check Show advanced GUI Elements
k3b burner

Settings > Configure K3b > Programs, make sure cdrecord is checked/configured here
k3b burner

Make sure 'cdrecord' is selected in "Writing app"
k3b burner

Select 'No Multisession' under Misc Tab
k3b burner

Features:
  • Data CD/DVD burning
  • Audio CD burning
  • CD Text support
  • Blu-ray/DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW support
  • CD-R/CD-RW support
  • Mixed Mode CD (Audio and Data on one disk)
  • Multisession CD
  • Video CD/Video DVD authoring
  • eMovix CD/eMovix DVD
  • Disk-to-disk CD and DVD copying
  • Erasing CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW
  • ISO image support
  • Ripping Audio CDs, Video CDs, Video DVDs

To install K3b in Ubuntu 13.04/12.10/12.04/11.10/11.04/10.10/10.04/Linux Mint 15/14/13/12/11/10 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
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