So you’ve taken my earlier advice and used the free and open-source FreeNAS operating system to convert an old desktop PC into a server, instead of consigning it to the e-waste heap. (If you haven’t, ...

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It takes something different to stand out in the crowded network-attached storage market. How does free, as in free beer and free speech, sound? That’s the premise behind FreeNAS, the open-source ...

Call it what you will, but several years ago when the venerable Stephen Poole, chief engineer here in the Crawford Broadcasting Birmingham cluster, introduced me to open source software, he created a ...

PC lovers tend to collect a lot of hardware as the years roll by. Instead of leaving it to collect dust, why not repurpose it as a file-slinging server? Several free and open-source operating systems ...