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Future Vipul’s guide to read & modify Linux EXT4 Drives on MacOS – Free & Open-Source

After reading the blog, you too would understand how to mount, access, read and write to a linux formatted pendrive or hard drive using EXT4 filesystem on a MacOS which otherwise needs a Linux VM to run or some paid software to be downloaded.

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Future Vipul’s Prep Guide to Dual-Booting: Dejunking Windows 10 and other sweet things!

Hey future Vipul, this is Vipul from 2020. What you know is a drop, what you don’t know is an ocean. You will need this guide when you get a new machine pre-installed with Windows (Whatever latest version is there on the planet you live on). Hopefully, Linux also exists at that time and you want to escape through a dual boot to loving arms of open-source software. You can’t go full Linux because you occasionally use proprietary tools and like gaming on Windows. We will be going through prep for that, to lighten Windows up to run on bare-minimum before the dual boot. Let’s get started, we have a lot to cover.

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[Solved] Virtualbox shared folders Guest additions not working on Linux nightmare!

Installing Guest additions on the VM to make the shared folders feature work is a long fought battle out many bad stackoverflow answers. Let me show what worked for me time and again. It’s easy and it’s fast. This is probably the messiest post I have written so far. Not proud of it but I know this will save lives for sure.

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Understanding x86 Virtualization

Youtube runs thousands of servers and streams videos to millions of viewers. We assume a server to be a single physical machine rather they are part of many virtual machines running on top of a single physical machine across the thousands of computers in a data center. Wanna know more about them. Click –>

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