XDA Developers on MSN

5 Windows Server features that beat Linux for specific home lab tasks

Linux dominates the home lab conversation for good reasons. Containers, lightweight services, network appliances, and ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Windows Server makes sense for some home labs, and I'm tired of pretending it doesn't

If you spend any amount of time in home-lab communities or pursuing forums, you’ll notice a weird propensity to dump on ...

A Microsoft engineer says that the use of Linux has overtaken Windows on its own Microsoft Azure cloud

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.
ZDNet

Pengwin: A Linux specifically for Windows Subsystem for Linux

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 ...
Virtualization Review

How To Use Linux for an ESXi NFS Server

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 ...