KVM Virtualization or Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology has been around from 2006. They merged it in to the mainline Linux kernel way back in 2007. KVM is a type-1 (bare metal) hypervisor. It shares control over the physical hardware along with the Linux kernel allowing the guest VMs to run on bare metal. According to IBM, the TCO of KVM virtualization as compared to VMWare...
In my previous post, I touched upon the purpose of dotfiles and the recommended specifications governing their creation. For those of us who spend countless hours customizing and perfecting dotfiles, an elegant approach for dotfile management can be well worth the investment. Having such an approach not only enables us to port our configurations to different systems but lets us do so with ease...
Dotfiles are everywhere. If you have used a Linux system for some time, I am sure that you have come across this horrendous dotfiles infesting your home directory. A simple ls -la in my home directory lists at least 70 such files and directories on my system. These are files and directories that I did not create, and if I delete them, they will reappear in due course. Dotfiles are configuration...
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