I am going to be building a personal file server here in the next month. This will be doing nothing except hosting about 4 hard drives for all the computers in my house, running Abyss personal ...

I'm replacing a Dell PentiumIII box running Debian linux that I don't use the GUI on (SSH command line only) used for an FTP server and a Samba server. It's worked well in this role, the only issue is ...

With so many Linux distributions out there to choose from, there’s nothing like a good survey to offer fresh insight as to who’s using which ones. Focusing on the server realm, I already reported ...

Many small businesses think the servers they use all run Windows operating systems, but many file server appliances are Linux-based systems using Samba for interoperability with their Windows or Mac ...

I have various folders shared across my network. Some of those folders are for smaller files that need to be accessed from every machine on my LAN (Local Area Network), while others tend to be used ...

A free Intel NUC with a 1TB mechanical hard drive was just too hard to pass up. Between my media server and random SMB shares across multiple servers, my important documents were scattered across my ...

Microsoft’s Linux 4.0 is based on Fedora Linux. As Lachlan Evenson, Microsoft’s principal program manager on Azure’s open-source team, told me, “We made a decision to use Fedora as an upstream, so ...