After all the recent talk about DIY NAS units in the "Other Hardware" forum, I am thinking about building a new one for myself. Currently using an old P3 with a addin SATA card and gigabit NIC, but ...

Long time Debian user and administrator (started out with Slackware but that's another story). I almost exclusively use the command line because I mostly deal with servers (mysql, apache, postfix) ...

Over the years, I’ve tinkered with all sorts of cool Linux distributions, and my distro-hopping tendencies only got worse after I encountered Proxmox. But if there’s one thing that my Linux tinkering ...

KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, is the up-and-coming enterprise virtualization contender. It’s lean, mean, fast, and runs unmodified guest operating systems with ease. In this crash course we’ll ...

Virtualization has become a cornerstone of modern computing, offering a myriad of benefits from cost savings to improved efficiency and scalability. Among the myriad of options available for server ...

Looking for an operating system to power the servers on your LAN? From hundreds of Linux distributions, I've hand-picked five that will more than meet your needs. You’ve got a home network, right? The ...

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.