BOSS Operating System

BOSS or Bharat Operating System Solutions
BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) is GNU/Linux distribution developed by C-DAC
(Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) derived from Debian for enhancing the use of Free/ Open Source Software throughout India.The Beta Release of BOSS GNU/Linux Version 5.0 is coupled with GNOME Desktop Environment with wide Indian language support & packages, relevant for use in the Government domain. This release aims more at the security part and comes with an easy to use application to harden your Desktop. Currently BOSS GNU/Linux Desktop is available in all the Official 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.

Versions Of BOSS :-
Version                                     Code name      Kernel number     Desktop   
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                                          
BOSS GNU/Linux v3.0              Tejas            2.6.22-3-486     GNOME 2.20 and KDE 3.5   
BOSS GNU/Linux v4.0              Savir            2.6.32-5-686     GNOME 2.30.2 and KDE 4.4.5   
BOSS GNU/Linux v5.0              Aasaan         2.6.32-5-686     GNOME 2.30.2 and KDE 4.4.5