Every website needs a web server, and every web server runs on an operating system. Linux and Windows Server are your choices, and our guide will help you pick the right OS. Our team tests, rates, and ...

(1) For the Linux-based smart device operating system, see webOS. (2) An operating system that runs in a server on the Web. See Web server. Because all browsers perform "almost" the same no matter ...

How about an operating system for the Web? How about the Web? The idea of a Web operating system has been bandied about for some time, and a few systems are appearing. The central idea of a Web ...

The holy grail of computing is to have some way to distribute a program to any computer. This is one of those totally unachievable goals, but many have tried with varying degrees of success. People ...

The rise of Docker has reinvigorated the interest in containers. Microservices and containerized applications are self-contained with minimal dependencies on the operating system. These contemporary, ...

Unlike your typical desktop OS, home server operating systems are infamous for their steep learning curves, convoluted UIs, and countless terminal commands… which isn’t entirely true. Sure, you may ...

Apache is an open source Web server and a free alternative to commercial server operating systems. Apache can serve pages in most any Web scripting language such as PHP, Perl and Python; it also ...

Fifteen years ago, you weren’t a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage. Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy—the most ...

Cross-platform software is the norm today. In many cases, developers don't have to consider what operating system their apps will be deployed on, because apps tend to be more or less platform-agnostic ...

The latest version of the home server operating system Unraid does away with annoying network problems. These had crept into the previous version under the guise of “smarter handling of network ...