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Bharat Operating System Solutions
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| BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) is a GNU/Linux distribution
| developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) for
| enhancing the use of Free/ Open Source Software throughout India. BOSS
| Linux - a key deliverable of NRCFOSS is an Indian GNU/Linux distribution &
| currently localized to Tamil / Hindi. Targeting Indian user it is designed as
| a user-friendly Desktop environment coupled with Indian language support and
| other packages that are highly relevant for use in the government
| domain.Subsequent version will support the educational domain as well. The
| ultimate goal is to localize into all 22 official Indian regional languages.
| So this benefits non-english speakers to reach technology that bridge digital
| divide in India.
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http://bosslinux.in/boss-3-0-release
Recent:
C-DAC Launches BOSS Linux Version 3.0, Signs MoU with NIC
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| The Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has launched its
| Bharat Operating Systems Solutions (BOSS) Linux software version 3.0
| developed by the National Resource Center for Free/Open Source Software
| (NRCFOSS). BOSS is a GNU/Linux distribution for enhancing the use of Free and
| Open Source Software (FOSS) in the country.
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http://www.itnewsonline.com/news/C-DAC-Launches-BOSS-Linux-Version-3.0,-Signs-MoU-with-NIC/13087/4/1
Say Ubuntu!!!
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| Chennai, India.
|
| The city administration awarded the school toppers with free laptops. Thanks
| to the organizers for the Ubuntu screens (otherwise we wouldn't have known).
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http://planetoss.com/detail.php?id=17
Related:
Indian Courts started supporting Linux
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| Towards Speedy, Inexpensive, Transparent and Accountable Justice
|
| Recently the Judicial Departments has taken steps towards the opensource
| softwares and they have started the operations for that they initially
| distributed around
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| 10000 nos of laptops of hp along with the Redhat enterprise linux 5 along
| with the internet connection to their officers.
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/indian-courts-started-supporting-linux-657167/#post3221474
http://tinyurl.com/5wfyg5
C-DAC Releases Five New Products at Elitex 2008
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| C-DAC’s commitment towards bridging the digital divide with Free and Open
| Source Software has crossed another major milestone with the release of
| Bharat Operating Systems Solutions (BOSS) Server Version, which can be used
| in the Government departments as an Intranet Server. The BOSS Linux Server
| has several valuable features that includes a user-friendly GUI Front end
| that has Fire fox, Thunderbird and also supports printers and USB devices
| such as cameras. Presently it supports Intel and AMD x86/x86-64 architecture
| and is being tested on other architectures. Another key feature of BOSS Linux
| is the ability to remotely control the server. BOSS Linux Server is mainly
| targeted towards Government departments / SME’s and also towards Linux distro
| (distribution) developers for further development on Linux.
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http://www.businesswireindia.com/PressRelease.asp?b2mid=14841
BOSS 2.0 Released
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| Finally our Indian Version of GNU/Linux is released on 17th September 2007 in
| the Connect 2007 program.
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http://bosslinux.in/boss-release
BOSS in Linux from C-DAC
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| BOSS Linux was made specifically for the Indian environment, it consists of a
| pleasing desktop environment coupled with Indian language support and other
| packages that are most relevant for use in the government domain.
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http://youvibe.blogspot.com/2007/09/boss-in-linux-from-c-dac.html
BOSS Linux makes new users feel at home
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| First-time Linux users should find BOSS pretty usable; its selection of
| applications and ability to work with Bluetooth devices, mount other
| partitions on the disk, and share files across the network, out of the box,
| make it a good distro for first-time Linux users.
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http://www.linux.com/articles/60764
BOSS Tarang 1.1 Review
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| BOSS Linux, based in India, is trying to be the first Linux
| distribution trying to support all official languages of India.
| It does also support English which is also being used more in
| that country.
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http://gnuman.com/distros/boss_tarang_1.1_review.html
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