Last year whenever people asked me what to use when building a home server, I'd tell them to use Linux or FreeBSD because there was absolutely nothing from Microsoft under a few hundred dollars. There ...

Setting up a file server doesn't need to be complicated. With three desktop machines (Kubuntu, Win XP and a testbed, which is currently running ReactOS) and a laptop (Xubuntu) in use at home, our IT ...

Thin clients are cheap, quiet Linux endpoints, but most people deploy them wrong. Here’s how to use them the right way.

He likes it: Linux guy gives Windows Home Server a (qualified) thumbs up It seems every time I do a Windows Home Server (WHS) post, the comments end up evolving/devolving into a debate over whether ...

Ever since the announcement of the Raspberry Pi, sites all across the Internet have offered lots of interesting and challenging uses for this exciting device. Although all of those ideas are great, ...

You're right, there are a ton of options out there, and we've written about many of them in the past—but we've never really compared them to one another. So, here are a few of our favorite options, ...

Desktop Linux should be shiny and fast, server Linux should be big and practical. Today's mix doesn't work -- here's the remedy My post about splitting up Linux distributions along dedicated server ...

If you haven’t already launched a Linux server in the cloud, this might be the perfect time. Why? because you can set one up in a matter of minutes because you have lots of choices on what ...