The Indian Government has launched a new version of Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS), a linux based distribution it developed for official use, reports NextBigWhat. The OS was launched by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) and built with the help of DRDO, Gujarat Technical University and private computer manufacturers. The platform has been developed with the intention to replace Windows and other operating systems in Government offices and schools as a more secure system. The BOSS OS team claims that it can be used as a regular OS in cyber cafes and user homes, especially as it supports multiple Indian languages. The OS, initially developed by the National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) of India in 2007, is a linux distro tailored for use in India. The platform claims to support 18 Indian languages including Assamese, Marathi, Sanskrit, Urdu, Konkani, Malayalam and Kannada other than English. The last released version of BOSS (before this) was in 2013, a pretty hefty release cycle in the OS world. Note that the OS is certified by the Linux Standard Base. BOSS variants: Other than BOSS 6.0, which is the main GNOME based desktop environment of the OS, there are a couple of other variants: EduBOSS claims to be a user-friendly Linux OS with educational applications that are useful for school kids; BOSS Advanced Server is a OS meant for servers with support for such processors and features like proxyserver, webserver etc. There is also the Minimalistic Object Oriented Linux (MOOL) project…
