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 ...

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.

One of Plan 9's biggest goals was to build a distributed operating system. PCs and workstations served as terminals to access compute servers and file servers. You can read all about it in the ...

The distributed operating system enables dynamic configuration so that multicore computers with/without local hard disks are dynamically connected or disconnected in response to the application's ...

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Amazon's service architecture. Image courtesy Amazon. The idea of a distributed operating system has been around in academia for a long time.