The Best 9 Windows Server 2008 Alternatives

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    CentOS

    CentOS is a community-supported, free and open source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

    Free Open Source Linux

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    FreeNAS

    FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface.

    Free Open Source BSD

  • Ubuntu Server icon

    Ubuntu Server

    The leading platform for scale-out computing, Ubuntu Server helps you make the most of your infrastructure. Whether you want to deploy an OpenStack cloud, a Hadoop...

    Free Open Source Linux

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    CoreOS

    CoreOS is a new Linux distribution that has been rearchitected to provide features needed to run modern infrastructure stacks.

    Free Linux

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    Windows Server 2012

    Windows Server 2012, codenamed "Windows Server 8", is the sixth release of Windows Server. It is the server version of Windows 8 and succeeds Windows Server 2008 R2.

    Commercial Windows

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    Amazon Linux AMI

    The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It is designed to...

    Free Open Source Linux

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    OS X Server

    Just like that, your Mac is a powerful server. The new OS X Server brings even more power to your business, home office or school. It’s remarkably easy to install...

    Commercial