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 the ...

An operating system designed to work in a network. More complex than a centralized or decentralized architecture, each computer in a distributed system operates and scales independently but is part of ...

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 ...

It’s been hard to define exactly what Improbable, the London-based company that raised $20 million from Andreessen Horowitz in March, does up until now, but its vision is clearer after it announced ...

iDeal OS is a user-friendly, Debian-based distribution. It includes a handy tool for extra security. iDeal OS is free to download and install. Every so often, I run across a Linux distribution that ...

At the 2019 Huawei Developers Conference held this afternoon, Huawei’s Yu Chengdong announced the launch of Harmony OS. This is a full-scale distributed OS based on a microkernel. Well, we have ...

We've been talking about Huawei's Android alternative for quite a while now, and the Chinese company has finally unveiled it. It's called HongmengOS in China, which translates to HarmonyOS for the ...

Today, at the Huawei Developer Conference (HDC – 2019) in Dongguan, China, Huawei has unveiled its in-house operating system, HarmonyOS (Hongmeng OS in China). The OS has been rumoured to be in the ...

Writing your own operating system can be anything from a summer hobby project to a full-fledged commercial endeavor taking many years to complete. One might think that with so many operating systems ...

Huawei has officially launched its mobile device operating system, HarmonyOS – Hongmeng in Chinese – for consumer internet of things (IoT) devices, with an option to use it to shore up its ...