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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Let's be clear: Linux powers pretty much everything you use. Cloud? Linux. Social media? Linux. Google? Linux. It's also in your fridge, thermostats, Android phones, robots, remotes, smart ...

Having a NAS which truly gives you the power of a fully-featured Linux machine is at the same time radical and a boon, and it makes the DS918+ far more than simply the storage device in a corner you ...

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 ...

Is it time for a Windows or Linux server in your home? Increasingly today's modern homes are gaining computing infrastructure to rival many small businesses. Just as a company should consider a server ...

Ask most anyone who runs Windows at home what edition of the operating system he or she is using, and odds are you’ll hear a fairly predictable roster of responses: Windows XP Home, XP Professional, ...

What is Windows Home Server? Most households now have multiple computers and huge libraries of media files too; it's therefore no longer a daft idea to have a server in your home to store all those ...