Whether you opt for bare metal servers or virtual machines, you'll need a rock-solid distro. These are my four go-to favorites. I’ve had several incarnations of the self-hosted home lab for decades.

Thanks to the Raspberry Pi, we have easy access to extremely inexpensive machines running Linux that have all kinds of GPIO as well as various networking protocols. And as the platform has improved ...

CentOS is dead, but if you look hard enough, its spirit isn't.