Tuesday 15 September 2015

BOSS

Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS) is a free and open source Linux distribution developed by the National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) of India. BOSS GNU/Linux is also known by the acronym BOSS. The latest version is 5.0


This software package has been described as "India's own PC operating system" and "the most meaningful product to come out of the Indian software industry in decades and a work that a government department has done".
                      The software has also been endorsed by the Government of India for adoption and implementation on a national scale.It was developed at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Chennai INDIA. BOSS GNU/Linux is an "LSB certified" Linux distribution: the software has been certified by the Linux Foundation for compliance with the Linux 
Standard Base standard.BOSS GNU/Linux is derived from Debian GNU/Linux.

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