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 ...

Professor Andrew Tanenbaum, who once famously told Linus Torvalds that his operating system was "obsolete" before it was even completed, created a distributed OS called "Amoeba" back in 1985 that ...

Hindman is joining Mesosphere to fulfill a vision he has had for years of building this new kind of distributed operating system using Mesos as the kernel. As an open source project, Mesos has had ...