Using an USB CDRW drive on your PPC Linux enabled computer is not a very difficult task. The Linux USB drivers work pretty straight forward and with recent kernels, "Plug and Play" is almost a reality. This HowTo will show you the way...

Support for USB 2.0 in Linux isn't too far away, C|Net has this , and MSNBC have this . Kernel 2.4.19 will have USB 2.0 support. USB 2.0 offers faster speeds up to 480mbps, and could stand to rival Apple's .