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BOSS: Virus free Operating system

BOSS, developed by C-DAC, Chennai, will benefit the use of Free/Open Source Software throughout India

Abhigna N G

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

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CIOL: What made NRCFOSS to develop a Linux based operating system?

MRR: The main objective of NRCFOSS was to come up with a localized Indian GNU/Linux distribution. It was decided by a committee of experts to have an Indian distribution of Linux so that the language used for the desktop environment and some of the applications can be in the Indian language, which will enable the mainly non-English literate users in the country to be exposed to ICT and to use the computer more effectively.

CIOL: Can you throw light on Bharat Operating Systems Solutions and BharateeyaOO (office application software suite)?

MRR: BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) is a GNU/Linux distribution developed by C-DAC, Chennai in order to benefit the use of Free/Open Source Software throughout India.

It has enhanced Desktop Environment integrating Indian language support and other packages that are relevant for use in the Indian government domain.

BOSS is easier for windows user to perform in GNU/Linux platform, which gives outstanding features like bulk document converter, Presentation tool and features like plug and play. BOSS will provide support for the educational domains and Server/Enterprise Editions.

BharateeyaOO is a productive application office suit comprising of word processing, spread sheet, database, presentation, draw, etc with language support with Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

CIOL: How BOSS is different from other Linux based operating system?

MRR: BOSS is exclusively available in Indian languages and provides native language keyboard that allows end users to input in different languages.

Presentation tool is an exceptional tool that helps to make presentations by moulding Graphics and Text. A high performance migration tool called Bulk document converter is available to convert documents from other Operating System and vice versa.

CIOL: What kind of measures NRCFOSS has taken to promote BOSS in government sector?

MRR: NRCFOSS aims to encourage and promote the development of applications under FOSS framework in the areas of education, SMEs and the e-governance domains, respectively.

NRCFOSS has established support centres across the country. The support would be in the form of a three-tier support.

Tier-I support would be provided by the support centres at academic institutions/state nodal agencies. These Support centres will assist the users in installation and also the training support when needed.

Tier-II support is provided by the support centres @ C-DAC. Around 50 engineers have been deployed. These support centres will assist the users in installation and also the training support when needed. These support centres will also contribute to the development in due course.

Tier-III support will be provided by NRCFOSS. This may involve debug, fine tuning of applications, developmental effort, configuration etc.

NRCFOSS, C-DAC Chennai is also planning to setup a National BOSS GNU/Linux remote help desk support centre in Chennai. The Centre will be available to users of BOSS Linux OS and utilities. A Single National support centre & service desk for telephonic logging of calls is planned.

In case of the call that needs to be routed for on-site resolution, the call will be directed to these support centres cited above. This ensures a National level on-site support through the support centres of C-DAC & academic institutions.

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S said on 3/28/2009 10:41:21 PM:
HAI

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dev said on 2/28/2009 5:44:10 PM:
very easy and understandable system to indian clients

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tytuyu said on 2/20/2009 11:00:52 PM:
ewrewtrtqert

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RAJ VIGNESH said on 11/24/2008 8:32:17 PM:
nice

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jagadesh said on 11/13/2008 2:06:14 PM:
tell me the process that i want to work with in C-DAC.I completed MCA in 75% 2008 pass out

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ARUL said on 10/22/2008 10:12:55 PM:
Computers in regional languages is not required concerning india. .A Question:Have you launched BOSS?

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Arnab Mukherjee said on 10/4/2008 1:57:11 AM:
It seems that the filter in action here will not let me type my reply to this article. After trying to check for over 30 min.s I could not find a single objectionable word or slang that could be NSFW! Hence Im simply posting a link to my pastebin: paste2.org/p/81771

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Sumeet said on 10/3/2008 12:19:25 PM:
Most of the Linux operating systems are immune to Virus and there is nothing special in BOSS. But yes, office applications in regional languages is appreciated. Have to wait and watch how well it gets promoted in India.

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Ragav said on 10/1/2008 3:37:14 PM:
How to download BharateeyaOO?

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Yogiraj said on 10/1/2008 10:54:45 AM:
Any Linux system is immune to virus... Whats new?

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Imtiaz said on 10/1/2008 9:56:56 AM:
Hey Magic, Just go through the story, you will get to know how BOSS rules in Indian open source space...!

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Ravi Ballal said on 10/1/2008 9:34:56 AM:
Good to see government sector promoting open source in India. Kudos to C-DAC.

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magic said on 10/1/2008 8:06:29 AM:
what is this

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