how to mount .iso files manually on ubuntu-9.10-karmic

what is iso image??

It is a compressed archive file that includes all the data files. It is defined by International Standard for Organisation(ISO). It has ".iso" file extension and the same image file can be burned on CD/DVD's

How to mount ISO file on my Ubuntu 9.10 Linux / Other Linux box's ??

On recent ubuntu linux mounts iso files automatically when u double click the .iso files. Otherwise you can mount iso manually.

$ sudo mount -o loop <ISO file path> <mount point>


How to un mount ??

$ sudo umount <mount point>

When you are trying to unmount you will often get some errors like this:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
arun@arun-laptop:/mnt$ sudo umount /mnt/
umount: /mnt: device is busy.
        (In some cases useful info about processes that use
         the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Check whether you are still accessing the mount point.If so come out of that directory, then try un mounting the mount directory.

OR

Here iso file being mounted as "loopback device". you can identify the mount point using " $ mount" command

i.e. dev/loop0 on /mnt type iso9660 (rw)

unmount it using this command, here loop[1-9]
$ sudo umount /dev/loop0


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Android

what is Android ?? Any guess...

Yes by definition "Android" means "an automaton that resembles a human being"

Not only that geek..it is a Mobile Operating System running on Linux kernel and it is the first Mobile OS that is running top of the Linux kernel.

Android project was started by Go-ogle and Open Handset Alliance, later they released it as a open source project for mobile phones. Android running its applications on top of Dalvik Virtual Machine(DVM) completely rewritten in java for mobile platforms.

Here Linux kernel sources are released under GPLv2 license and application sources are released under  Apache licenses

Android also released its API to the developers explore more through Android SDK. There are three major SDK release from Android development team: SDK-1.1 release 1- February 2009 , SDK-1.5, release 3- July 2009 and SDK-1.6 Release 1 September 2009, then now Android SDK-2.0 release 1- October 2009. You can download and install SDK on your Linux machine for installation instructions click here .

Write your own application for android and post  the application on market place get money.

Android was initially targeted to run on ARM(RISC architecture) platform then later they made it to run on x86(CISC architectures) platforms. There are plenty of mobile phones and net book's are going to come in market. HTC released his G1 mobile that is powered by Android and also Asus eeePc running on Android. :(-

all the major Mobile manufactures are turned into Android. within a year you can see the growth and rich features in Android. In next article we will see how to install Android on Ubuntu Linux.

Ubuntu Demo in Science exhibition at Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Chennai

Vivekanandha vidayalya arranged for a science exhibition on 7-8,Nov-2009 and invited Ubuntu Tamil Team through Mr.Ravichandran, swadeshi Iyakkam for giving a demo at the science exhibition.

The event was intimated before 3 days. So, Not able to arrange volunteers. Even though got 4 volunteers including me(Thangamani Arun), Raji, Basker and Amachu.


we showed demo for following education s/w on Ubuntu-9.04 Desktop Linux.

1. Gcc
2. Gcompris
3. Stellarium
4. kalzium
5. Kstars
6. Drgeo
7. Tamil Typing demo using ibus
 
Vivekanandha vidayalya has two schools in places perambur as well as in vyasarpadi.We have to give demo in two schools for two days. First day Raji and Basker gave demo in perambur school and I took responsibility of giving demo at Vyasarpadi school.

First Day Exhibition was started very late at 10:30 due to rain in Chennai and the school principal inaugurated the exhibition also he visited our demo stall. I explained briefly about FOSS and its importance.

School provides one PC, I had one laptop. I had a external USB HDD with pre installed Ubuntu Linux on it. I just hooked my USB cable and able to boot Ubuntu for demo. 

Only few students were known Linux not much. They played with Ubuntu and educational softwares. students are exited while showing Stellarium and kalzium

One the +2 student asked me "C" programming in Linux. I written a "HelloWorld" program and i explained how to compile and run the programs.

Many of them excited seeing Ubuntu Linux and the applications. and they asked for the Ubuntu CDs and i had Ubuntu-9.10 iso's already, burned and gave them. Few of the students and parents asked for the installation demo. i did installation demo too.


2nd Day: Me taken care at vyasarpadi school and Amachu @ perambur school. Sunday is holiday for every one. So  most of parents were came along with the students for the exhibition. Around 800+ students were participated and heard about FOSS and Ubuntu Linux.This event was really went well.

Thanks a lot to and Ravichandran from Swadeshi Iyakkam, Raji, Basker,Thangamani Arun, and Amachu for success of this event on behalf of ILUGC and Ubuntu Tamil Team


For event pictures click here

FOSS.IN-2009

FOSS.IN is one of the world’s largest Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) events, held annually in India. FOSS.IN/2009 is scheduled on Dec 1-5,2009 at NIMHANS Convention Center, Bangalore.The event is highly focussed on FOSS development and contribution. Over the years, it has attracted thousands of participants, and the past speakers reads like a “Who’s Who” of FOSS contributors from across the world.

FOSS.IN run by all India Linux User group volunteers and the event co-ordinated by Atul Chitnis. You can find almost all contributors of FOSS.Call for speaker's registration is ready. Delegate registration is not yet open. will keep you update on that.

Come and join with us for the great FOSS event and have fun :( see you there

"FOSS for common man, Linux for Human Beings"

Learning from FOSS expo for Govt Hr. Sec School students at Tamil Nadu Science City,Chennai

TamilNadu Science City, Chennai arranged for a expo to Goverment Hr. Sec School students to get know about Linux OS and educational software's.The event was started with Tamil thaai vazhthu and followed by Dr.P.IyamPerumal,Vice Chairmen,Science City,Chennai inagrated the  event and he explained the importance of the FOSS in education and followed by Mr.Shriramadass, NRCFOSS-Associate talked about FOSS and its important in education.

Around 60 students were attended the event from Chennai corporation and Govt. Hr. Sec. Schools. we have grouped the students and in each group 5 students with one laptop running on Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora Linux OS's per group with educational softwares pre-installed in it.

The following topics were covered during the demo sessions

• About free open source software
  


• Linux OS distributions - Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora
  


• Desktops - KDE and Gnome
  


• Tamil Typing - IOK onscreen, XKB-Tamil Unicode method
  


• Education software's


• Physics - Kstars, Stellarium
  


• Chemistry - Kalzium
  


• Maths - Dr.Geo


• English - Kanagaram, Khangman

The students actively learned as much as possible and asked more doubts. We explained well about all the software's with hands on demo. They observed well.

we have prepared hard copy of the documents related to educational software's were distributed to the teachers of the Govt Hr. Sec. Schools along with Ubuntu-9.04 DVD

Finally we asked few questions from the demo sessions and gave them Ubuntu pens who ever answered correctly and also we asked the students to give summary  talk about the session, a student named Selvi.Gulori from Velachery govt Hr. Sec School won the Kattatra menporul Book Translated by  Shriramadass.
Event was inaugurated by Prof Devadoss, Chairman, Tamilnadu
Astronomy Society and Dr Iemperumal, Vice Chairman, Science City.

The event was coordinated by

• Mr.ShriRamadass, NRCFOSS Associate and Ubuntu Tamil Team co-ordinator


• Mr.Bharathi Subramaniam, ILUG-C co-ordinator


• Mr. Thangamani Arun, Ubuntu Tamil Team Leader

Thanks To:
Dr Ananta Krishanan for granting permission.
Hema, Science City, for helping in organizing.
Sowmiya and Rajesh for providing 2 laptops.
Raman and Thyagu for the ideas and advices.

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