Microsoft has applied for a patent for a distributed operating system that matches the description of one its researchers have been developing, known as Helios. (Thanks to ZDNet blogger @Manan for ...

Distributed operating systems, defined as such, have not become as widely used by any stretch in comparison to Linux, Unix and Windows, which thrive in millions of networks. See Plan 9 and Inferno .

In this paper, the authors aim at providing a complete survey of distributed operating systems. This paper also explains in detail about various key design issues involved in the building of such ...

The idea of a distributed operating system has been around in academia for a long time. Professor Andrew Tanenbaum, who once famously told Linus Torvalds that his operating system was "obsolete ...

The distributed operating system is based on the Linux kernel and it provides a single system image to users. Research Director Yutaka Ishikawa Affiliation Professor, The University of Tokyo Research ...

At Rapidly-Growing Andreessen Horowitz Startup, Hindman Named Lead Architect of First Operating System on Top of the Distributed Systems Kernel He Co-Created at Berkeley AMPLab Marketwired Mon ...

Microsoft's researchers are working on yet another operating-system research project which can trace its roots to the company's Singularity project. This new operating system, known as Helios, is ...