Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a powerful component of the x86 hardware virtualization extensions required for Intel VT and AMD-V. Virtualization technologies have been growing steadily in their capabilities and adoption. Linux kernel has included the KVM component in the mainstream since 2.6.20. It is a crucial part of using virtualization on Linux machines, and is frequently used with software similar to QEMU.
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Built as a slim and secure operating system, this is an option primarily for power users and advanced use cases.
A relative new comer to the world of Linux distributions is Arch. Designed to be a lightweight, flexible, and simple option. It’s used as a base to fork other distributions.
Closely linked to SUS Linux, openSUSE has a long history with a dedicated community. It is slightly different from the Red Hat Enterprise and Debian based distributions. For example, the application manager is Yet another Setup Tool (YaST), similar to YUM and APT.
There are two main flavours for this distribution: Leap and Tumbleweed. The numbering scheme was changed in 2017, when the version number jumped from 42.3 back to 15.0.
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