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 .

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 ...

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 ...

The Apstra Operating System is the first vendor-agnostic distributed operating system for the data center network that empowers CIOs and network architects to take control, transform how they ...

It's time for a distributed operating system that provides "that common layer of abstraction across these heterogeneous and distributed cloud resources," she says.

The availability of the mobile operating system, which is open source, will be limited to China for now, though the company has plans to bring it to international markets at a later stage, he said.