Whether you opt for bare metal servers or virtual machines, you'll need a rock-solid distro. These are my four go-to favorites. I’ve had several incarnations of the self-hosted home lab for decades.

There is no single best Linux distribution for every enterprise's servers. It all depends on what your company needs. Today, Linux is more than a free OS to mess around with -- it runs core business ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

Linux servers and desktop distros are essentially the same thing. Am I wrong? A minimalist distro serves the same job as one designed as a server. Ignoring convenience for a second, they're entirely ...

Any Linux systems administrator needs to be proficient with a wide range of commands for user management, file handling, system monitoring, networking, security and more. This article covers a range ...

Do utilities such as grep, awk and sed give you nightmares? You might have a Linux phobia. A third Microsoft Azure workloads run on some Linux distribution, and Microsoft plans to bring the Windows ...

You've probably never heard of your next favorite Linux distro.

Up to this point, we have installed Linux Mint on an old PC and... turned it into a NAS using Samba enabled external access ...

That ancient PC under your desk still has a few tricks left!