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7/30/2019 BOSS Components

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INTRODUCTION ON BOSSSeminar by

ASHISH KUMAR CHAUHAN

[email protected]


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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

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