Robbie Ferguson: I'm just talking about the ISO file and let's actually look at that because one of the features that I wanted to look at tonight is how to burn CDs in Linux. I guess 2482, yeah, you can actually download the CD ISO of Ubuntu off of their website. And what an ISO is basically it’s like an image of a CD in its entirety so you download that and then you can actually place that onto a CD and it won't cause any problems with that like it will actually be like an exact duplicate of the original disc.
So, let's just take a quick look at some of the software that we can use in Ubuntu. I guess you're not going to be able to burn an Ubuntu ISO this way but in Windows if you're using windows for example you can get—you should be able to use your whatever CD application you're using. Nero works with the ISO files. There's a free one CD burner XP which is excellent if you—I think it’s a .net application and it’s free as in price so that’s a little better for if you want to just burn something. But as far as Ubuntu goes this is Ubuntu Linux. Oh no, I click on the spreadsheet. It didn’t take too long.
Carrie Webb: Just burn it up.
Robbie Ferguson: I'll just burn it, yeah. This is Ubuntu Linux base install we've just done a little bit of tweaking over the past a couple of weeks which you can actually see those tweaks on the show. And it comes with the great suite of applications. Right out of the box it comes with the burning application called Brasero. And if we click on that, it really like some of the features of Brasero. We can obviously create things like an audio project, data project those are the main ones that you're going to do if you're working with CDs, DVDs, you can do a DVD data project which is really awesome if you want to do like a backup it’s 4.7 to nine gigs depending on whether you’re using dual layer or not.
One of the greatest things about Brasero I think though is the disk copy feature. It will do an exact copy of a CD or DVD not with decryption or anything like that so we’re not talking about making illegal copies of DVDs, we’re talking about if you’ve got a DVD backup or a DVD of family photos and you want to run those off for a friend or family member, you can do a disk copy. But what so cool about that, you only need one drive which is very nice. So, what it will actually do is it will pop the first disk in, it will copy that to your hard drive and create an image of that disk just like the ISO’s we were just talking about. And then it will prompt you to pop in the next disk and then it will actually burn that ISO.
So, it’s not like the old days where we use to have to have two drives so that you could run a copy from one to the other, so that’s a really nice feature. And then the other stuff is just, you know, this standard stuff that you would expect from a CD burning application if you want to create a data project you'll see your files over on the left hand side. You highlight the ones that you want to add and you can use control click to add multiple items, and once you’ve highlighted on an item you can just go add up at the top here and that will throw that right on your project.
Another nice thing here is if you're working on a project and you get called away and you’ve got to go or do something or whatever, you can close Brasero and the next time that you bring it up right of the menu, it’s not going to give you that options menu anymore, it’s actually going to low that project just as it was the last time that you're in there. If you want to clear your project you can click on empty project. And now next time you load it up, you're going to get that menu prompt once again. So, it’s just kind of nice because you don’t have to worry about you know, saving files and things like that if you're in the middle of a detailed project or things like that.
If you guys have any questions for me specifically about what I'm showing just mention it in the chat room category5.tv.
Moving along there is another application that I really like for burning and that’s called K3B. It’s technically a KDE application but nice thing Ubuntu even with Gnome and any Linux with Gnome, you can actually KDE applications and it’s not dangerous or anything like that. This is something that it doesn’t come with Ubuntu, this is something that we grab from our synaptic package managers, so system administration synaptic package manager, enter your password, this is your sudo password.
First time you run synaptic package manager each session, just press the Reload button up at the top left that’s going to get your latest packaging formation. And under your search, just type K3B. This is available for previous versions of Ubuntu as well so this is not limited to only in trap it. You can see that I’ve already got it installed but if you click on that, you can go mark for installation and then just hit apply up at the top here and that’s how you get a copy of K3B. The reason that I already installed it for us today is because we want to just be able to skin through this real quick and it does take a little while to install K3B. I think there's 11 packages because it actually has to install some libraries if you’ve never installed any KDE applications which allow you to run KDE applications within Gnome.
So, I'll bring up that applications so that you can see how that works and you're going to find both of these under sound and video K3B only once it’s installed. If you don’t like the splash you can disable it. So, this is K3B and you'll see that the interface is kind of pretty, it’s you know, some Linux users don’t like it but if your coming from Windows especially I think that this is a really great interface. It really—when I move over the Linux it reminded me of easy CD creator which is the software that I use to used way back in the day. And so this was a nice easy migration for me.
You can create the same thing audio CD projects, data CD projects, etcetera, etcetera copy CD’s, burn your CD image, which we are talking about there if you get an ISO file of the internet like Ubuntu CD and actually burn that image and then like you can do DVD ISO as well.
So, in this case it’s a little bit of a different layout but if I click on new data projects see how much more similar this is to a window style interface so then I drag that file and I drop it there's no having to click add or anything like that you can drag folders if you want and drop it, etcetera, etcetera. Then when you're done you just click on the Burn button over here, go through your settings and you good to go. So, this are all freely available on Ubuntu to very, very nice any Linux distribution will have access to this applications.
Carrie Webb: —in the chat room says, “In K3B you can even burn self loading video DVD’s.”
Robbie Ferguson: You won't, a self burning—a self booting video DVD.
Carrie Webb: Self-booting video DVD. Is that good?
Robbie Ferguson: It sounds great.
Carrie Webb: Good! Thomas Gillain says, he said, “You can run them in Gnome?”
Robbie Ferguson: Yeah, K3B can be run in Gnome absolutely, yup. I installed it, as you see this is a Gnome interface and for those of you who aren’t familiar with what Gnome means. This is the interface that we’re using on this version of Linux which is Ubuntu. If you’ve got Cubuntu that’s going to be KDE but as you can see this is Gnome, just a straight Ubuntu installation and I've got under sound and video K3B. So, it is a KDE application but as you can see it runs just fine under Gnome and it will automatically from synaptic it will automatically install any dependencies that are required in order to make it work under Gnome.
Carrie Webb: Thomas Gillain is just asking if you need the KDE or QT libraries.
Robbie Ferguson: It will actually install QT automatically I believe. Everything that requires, it will do it automatically for you Thomas, so no having to worry about that.
Carrie Webb: Okay, good stuff.
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