If you are considering the possibility of using a laptop as a home server you’ll be pleased to know that Wolfgang has created a great tutorial and overview of how you has used the Ninker N16 Pro ...

I've always been a big proponent of using NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices for dedicated file and media storage and backup. They are a low-power, low-cost alternative to a dedicated PC server, ...

Repurposing an old desktop PC for home lab or server use is not only noble, but it's extremely practical as well. The ...

Nearly all Linux distributions could serve as either a desktop or server OS. It's not like you'd want to slap a desktop environment onto Ubuntu Server and use it as a desktop OS, but you could. You ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

I don't really see a reason to use Windows Server for anything. You can do Active Directory for Windows clients using Samba on a RHEL based Linux distro. I might be wrong, but I think you can even do ...

Just because you can use a Raspberry Pi as a media server doesn’t mean that you should. I’d say there are better uses for ...