ISO files are basically archive files that represent the contents written in every sector of an optical disk. This way you can have a CD or DVD image handy any time in your hard drive and use it accordingly (either mount it to access the data, or burn it on an actual physical disk).
Linux users are very font of ISO files as this is the most common format that Linux distributions come in. You can use them as local repositories/media to update or enrich your existing distribution, install them on a virtual machine for testing purposes, or just burn them on a CD/DVD and use it as an installation and system recovery disk.
There are many ways you can follow to mount or burn an ISO file in Linux and as you probably already guessed, the Terminal and the 'mount' command is the most direct of all. This post won't deal with this though, as there are other more user-friendly ways to deal with ISO files like the Acetone and Furius GUI tools.
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