National Operating System for Bangladesh

1. Md. Shamsur Rahim, Ehtesham Choudhury
Student, MScCS
American International University- Bangladesh
Submitted to: একসেে টু ইনফরসেশন(এ টু আই) প্রোগ্রোে

2. Introduction:
• World has become “Global Village” due to the
Technological advancement.
• But this advancement comes with some trade offs.
• At present, Countries don’t get involved in Physical
Warfare rather they get involved in Cyber Warfare.
• Recent Statistics shows that, Hacktivism has increased
by 35% in 2015 than previous years.
• Vulnerability in Operating System is one of the reasons
for being attacked.

3. Problems with Existing Systems
• “Digital Bangladesh” is not anymore the political manifesto of a
single party as it has become the dream of 16 million people of
Bangladesh.
• The usage of Computers in every sector is the key to digitalization.
• No Computer can perform any task without Operating System. It is
a software that manages computer hardware and software resources
and provides common services for computer programs.
• Although with the advantage of technology, now-a-days lots of
Software are being developed by the talented programmers of our
country, but still we haven’t worked to develop our own operating
Systems.
• Countries like China, Iran, Russia have started to build their own
Operating Systems.

4. Problems with Existing Systems Cont.
• In case of Operating System, we have only three
choices:
1. Windows Operating Systems
2. Open Source Operating Systems
3. Mac OS
• We can categorize Windows & Mac OS as
Proprietary OS.
• Windows operating systems are the most widely
used OS in our country.
• In the following Slide, we have described the pros
and cons of Proprietary OS and Open Source OS.

5. Pros and Cons of Windows OS:
• Pros:
▫ Easy to use
▫ Service, support & maintenance provided by vendor.
▫ For any kind of program bugs, vendors take the
liability.
• Cons:
▫ Costly
▫ Vulnerable to Security threats like Viruses, Malware
etc.
▫ Modification cannot do by the user.
▫ Redistribute is not allowed.
▫ Lock-in to a single vendor
▫ Not fully supported Bangla Language.

6. Pros and Cons of Open Source OS:
• Pros:
▫ Free of Cost.
▫ Modification is possible.
▫ Redistribution is possible.
▫ More secured.
• Cons:
▫ Very poor User Interface, Difficult for users to use.
▫ For Service and Support, have to rely on online
community users and developers to deliver support
via forums and blogs
▫ No one is liable for any kind of Loss.
▫ Not fully supported Bangla Language.

7. How Bangladesh Can be benefited by
having her own Operating System:
• As we see, both the Proprietary and Open Source
OS has some major disadvantages.
• Having/Starting to develop a own OS,
Bangladesh will be:
▫ World’s 4th Country to take this initiative, which
will indicate our progress towards digitalization.
▫ Able to reduce cost by millions of dollars by
stopping importing Proprietary Software.
▫ Able to modify and customize according to
People’s needs.
▫ Stimulated the local software industry.

8. Why It’s the right time to have our
own OS?
• To secure our National Data Center.
• Approval of strong law against Software Piracy [1]
▫ As most of the uses of our country uses pirated
software.
• TIFCA
▫ Enforcement of Copyright Law
• With the rate of digitalization, the risk of being
hacked is also increasing day by day.
• As 40% of our total population illiterate about
English so an Operating System in Bangla will boost
to speed of Digital Bangladesh.

9. Our Proposal:
• Our proposal is develop our own Operating
System.
▫ In our proposed system, we will use Linux kernel.
▫ Security will be ensured.
▫ The kernel will be modified and tested to support
our people’s requirements.
▫ The User Interface will be such friendly so that
everyone can use easily.

10. স্বপ্ন পূরণের পণে...
Initial Prototype

11. Initial Prototype

12. References:
• [1].
http://bdnews24.com/business/2007/09/30/so
ftware-pirates-snub-copyrights-laws