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INTRODUCTION ON BOSSSeminar by
ASHISH KUMAR CHAUHAN
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Overview
About BOSS
BOSS Overview
BOSS Features
Demo of Applications inside BOSS
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BOSS
Bharat Operating System Solutions(BOSS)
Product from NRCFOSS .
Linux distribution developed by C-DAC for enhancing the use of
Free/Open Source Software in the country.
Made specifically for the Indian environment , it consists of a pleasing
Desktop environment coupled with Indian language support and other
packages that are most relevant for use in the government domain.
A Linux Distribution forked from Debian.
The ultimate goal is to localize into all 22 official Indian regionallanguages. So this benefits non-english speakers to reach technology thatbridge digital divide in India.
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BOSS Overview
BOSS 1.0(tarang) released in January 2007BOSS 2.0(anant) released in September 2008
BOSS 3.0(tejas) - released in September 2009Latest Version : BOSS 3.1(tejas) having Kernel 2.6.22-3-486.
It consists of 3 sections:
Install - The Installable allows the user to install the BOSS GNU/Linux
onto the Harddisk and work on it.Live - lets you to have the BOSS Desktop in your system withoutinstalling it on your harddisk.Utility - consists of addon packages that can be installed in BOSS forsome specific applications like webserver, education tools, openofficelanguage packages etc.
Current developement version is BOSS 4.O(savir) having kernel2.6.32-3-486.
BOSS educational version for students upto Class 10th named as EduBOSShaving kernel-2.6.26-1-686.
BOSS Advance server -1.0 having kernel -2.6.22-3-486.
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BOSS FEATURES
User Friendly Graphical Installer
Indian version of OpenOffice BharatheeyaOO -3.1
Auto detection of devices
Hardware support for digital cameras, printers, scanners, bluetooth, Wifi.
Automounting of all Harddisk partitions
Localization support for desktop
Input method with Remington keyboard layout for Hindi, Tamil,Punjabi.
Conversion tool - Bulk document converter
Internet tools Pidgin, Firefox-3.6, X-chat, Ekiga Multimedia support
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BOSS -4.0MAIN Components
GNOME 2.30 version
Linux Kernel 2.6.32-3-486 - much more hardware support for all
Printersvideo cardsscannersCamerasWifi and Lan cards
BharatheeyaaOO 3.2With default java support
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Office and other Utilities
BOSS presentation tool Bulk document converter Scim Input method support for Indic lanugaues with
different keyboard layouts Online and Offline Dictionaries Gnome DO a quick search tool
Tomboy notes to track all your notes Integrated Onscreenkeyboard with Indic language support
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Graphics and Sound
GIMP 2.6 with more plugins Totem movie player with mp3,wma, vob .,support Evince Document viewer for pdf ,ps , eps formats Banshee music player CD , DVD writer with multisession support Cheese webcam booth With both snapshot and video
recording support
Disk Maintanance
Disk usage analyzer to scan the whole filesystem
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Accessibility: Espeak GUI frontend to convert text to speech
Orca screenreader and magnifier
Security: No super user (GUI) login
Authentication to mount any other disk drives
One click complete Firewall tool A Control center to configure all the system applications and set
user permission.
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Network
Network-manager a easy to configure sys tray for
Wired Wireless Mobile broadbandVpn Dsl connections
Bluetooth support for all bluetooth devices (audio,video)
and drivers to access mobile internet
Update manager to get ready to install updates from the
repository
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A Quick Demo
DEMO FOR DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS INBOSS 4.0
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THANKS