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 ...

As IT professionals we face an ever increasing need for enterprise and departmental information storage strategies. Fibre Channel (FC), storage area networks, network attached storage, IP and SCSI ...

One of the problems in doing it earlier was that the ingredients weren't there: extensibility of switch operating systems, APIs, and many people approached this from configuration as the starting ...

Users of the previous version complained about unstable connections and incomplete routing tables. Unraid manufacturer Lime ...

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 ...

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 ...

Helios "treats programmable devices as part of a 'distributed system in the small,'" according to Microsoft's description, and "is inspired by distributed operating systems such as LOCUS, Emerald ...