Despite its quirks, 9front is more than just a curiosity. It is a direct descendant of research at Bell Labs, where Unix itself was born, and it represents an alternate vision of how computers could ...

Networks may not be the most expensive thing in the datacenter – they typically comprise about 10 percent to 15 percent of the cost of a distributed system, including cables, transceivers, switches, ...

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 ...