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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS) OS

We Indian's always been using Operating System imported from Outside India , Now first time in India C-DAC has launched Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS) OS Derived from Debian , improving the use of Open Source Software in India.
BOSS GNU/Linux advanced server has unique features such as Web server, proxy server, Database server, Mail server, Network server, File and Print server, SMS server, LDAP server. BOSS GNU/Linux advanced server is comprised with administration tool such as webmin which is a web based interface, Gadmin, PHP myadmin, PHP LDAP admin, PG admin.


Bharat Operating System Solutions
BOSS GNU/Linux logo
BOSS screenshot 1.jpg
BOSS 3.0 (Tejas)
Company / developerNRCFOSS / CDAC, India
OS familyUnix-like
Working stateCurrent
Source modelFree and open source software
Initial releaseJanuary 10, 2007
Latest stable release3.0 / September 5, 2008
Marketing targetGeneral purpose
Available language(s)Multilingual (more than 18)
Package managerdpkg
Supported platformsi386, AMD64[1]
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux)
UserlandGNU
Default user interfaceGNOME and KDE
LicenseGNU GPL & Various others.
Official websitewww.bosslinux.in

Features of BOSS Linux

Graphical mode installer;
Faster system startup and login;
Simplified menu organization;
Easy access to power management settings;
Improved support for video playback;
3D Desktop;
BharatheeyaaOO (Localised OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 � currently in Tamil and Hindi);
Enhanced Removable Media support;
Plug & Play support for devices;
Multimedia support;
TV Tuner support;
Bluetooth support;
Optional Network Manager for convenient roaming between different wireless and wired networks;
Migration Tool – Bulk Document converter;
Input Method – SCIM with Remington Keyboard Layout for Tamil, Hindi, Punjabi,and Marati;
Dual Boot Facility;
Automount of existing Hard Disk partitions.

Popular applications inside BOSS Linux:

GNOME Desktop
Liferea – RSS/RDF Reader
Totem
XMMS
GNOME Power Manager
Bonfire
Evolution Mail Client
Firefox
Gaim
Xchat
Alacarte
KeyJnote


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