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 ...

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 ...

Ensure your system is up to date, as outdated versions can sometimes cause permission errors and communication issues with applications. Sometimes, antivirus software can interfere with DCOM ...

A company that would disagree is Amazon, who just published a paper (PDF) detailing a distributed storage project called Dynamo. While Dynamo is not a complete operating system by itself ...