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 ...

An operating system that is designed for a server. Normally, it is a complete operating system with file, task and job management; however, with some earlier products, it was a separate component that ...

As computers become more powerful, operating systems become more resource-intensive to take advantage of these improvements. The problem, of course, is that when operating systems update, low-resource ...