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 .

Distributed operating systems let you fuse a collection of processors into one virtual machine that is independent of the system architecture. System performance, however, will rely heavily on how ...

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 ...

Huawei’s HarmonyOS vs Google’s AndroidI. Why?1. Why has Huawei developed HarmonyOS, a distributed OS for devices?The future-proof HarmonyOS, with a clear strategy for the future, has ...

At the Huawei Developer Conference today, Huawei launched HarmonyOS – a new microkernel-based, distributed operating system designed to deliver a cohesive user experience across all devices and ...

Folding@home 2.0 is ready for download, and Mac OS X graphical user interface and command line interface clients are now available for the first time. Folding@home is a distributed computing ...

Automation not only cuts costs by abstracting away undifferentiated labor, it's also grease on the wheels that keep developer operations rolling along in the technology sector. Elements stuck in manu ...