Many Linux distributions and bootable recovery CDs ship as an industry-standard ISO image. An ISO image is a complete copy of an original CD (or a collection of files as an ISO image, ready for burning to a CD) which can be distributed over the web and then burned ‘as is’ to a CD or DVD.

However, getting the ISO image on to a CD is a different matter. Many commercial burning applications enable you to import an ISO image, but many of these do not enable you to make too many changes before burning to CD/DVD. In addition, there are few free tools that enable you to manage your ISO distribution files.

ImgBurn is a tool that is designed to manage and create ISO distribution images. If you have an ISO you want to burn to CD/DVD, simply select the ISO image and burn. If you want to create your own ISO image, simply select the files you want to add to your image and save the contents to your hard drive.