Which server OS is the most appropriate must be argued in the context of the job that needs to be done, based on factors such as cost, performance, security and application usage. Which is better?

If you spend any amount of time in home-lab communities or pursuing forums, you’ll notice a weird propensity to dump on Windows. Real home labs run Linux. Proxmox, TrueNAS, ESXi replacements, Docker ...

In recent years, Microsoft has warmed up to Linux, which it used to see as a rival. Now, there's more use of Linux than Windows on Microsoft Azure.

The only thing I find surprising about this is that it took so long. WSL will never be popular with the hoi polloi, but sysadmins and developers love being able to run Linux on their office Windows ...

Ask any Linux enthusiast, and they’ll tell you how awesome an operating system Linux can be. (Well, except Bryan Lunduke, who will say it sucks before he says it’s awesome.) For the desktop user, the ...

Tom Fenton explains which Linux distribution to use, how to set up a Network File Share (NFS) server on Linux and connect ESXi to NFS. In a previous article, "How To Set Up an NFS Server on Windows ...

Windowsfx is the Linux distribution Windows users have been looking for Your email has been sent Over the past 20 or so years, there always seems to be that one distribution everyone claims is the ...

Docker support: Docker’s container-as-a-service was already allowed in Windows Server 2016; in version 1709, you can install Docker natively, and support Windows-based and Linux-based Docker ...

Which is better? Microsoft Windows Server or open-source Linux? This debate arouses vehement opinions, but according to one IT consultant who spends a lot of time with both Windows and Linux, it’s a ...

Windows support is readily available in most parts of the world. You can get it from Microsoft and other third parties. Linux support is becoming more available from commercial sources, better than it ...