Bharat Operating System Solutions=BOSS
Now Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS) is a free and open source computer operating system developed by the National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) of India.
This software is also known by the acronym BOSS GNU/Linux or simply BOSS Linux.
The latest version of this operating system, BOSS GNU/Linux Version 4.0, was released in February 2011.
This software package has been described as "India's own PC operating system"
the most meaningful product to come out of the Indian software industry
in decades — and a work that a government department had done.
The product is free software in the sense in which the term is used by the Free Software Foundation. and it is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
The latest desktop version of BOSS GNU/Linux is fully localised to eighteen Indian languages.
Versions
BOSS GNU/Linux has had five major releases till February 2011.
| Version |
Code name |
Kernel number |
Desktop |
Date of release |
| BOSS GNU/LinuxEvaluation |
Sethu |
2.6.14-2-smp |
GNOME 2.8 |
|
| BOSS GNU/Linux v1.0 |
Tarang |
2.6.17-1-i386 |
GNOME 2.14 |
|
| BOSS GNU/Linux v2.0 |
Anant |
2.6.21-1-486 |
GNOME 2.18 |
|
| BOSS GNU/Linux Server |
|
2.6.21 |
|
Jan 2008 |
| BOSS GNU/Linux v3.0 |
Tejas |
2.6.22-3-486 |
GNOME 2.20 and KDE 3.5 |
Sep 2008 |
| BOSS GNU/Linux v4.0 |
Savir |
2.6.32-5-686 |
GNOME 2.30.2 and KDE 4.4.5 |
Feb 2011 |
very latest version Boss 4.0 was released recently in 26 February 2011.
The Indian Languages such as Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi,
Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu,
Bodo, Urdu, Kashmiri, Maithili, Konkani, Manipuri which will enable the
mainly non-English literate users in the country to be exposed to ICT
and to use the computer more effectively.
Bosslinux provides both Gnome and KDE desktop environment and even offers some advanced graphical effects like 3D environment.
It has the standard set of applications for everyday usage like...
* a localised version of Openoffice called Bharateeya Openoffice
* Firefox 3.0 for web browsing
* Thunderbird for email
* Pidgin for instand messaging
* a PDF viewer
* SCIM for typing in various languages
* GIMP for graphics
* Camorama webcam viewer
* Bluetooth support
* Xsane for scanning documents
* Good printers support etc.,
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