Only for helping to other students.

1. Seminar on
Presented By
Mr. Vishwanath Uttam Ahire
Guided By
Mr. Prashant C. Harne

2. CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. HISTORY
3. FEATURES
4. BOSS VARIANTS
5. ARCHITECTURE
6. COMPARISON
7. INTERNET TOOLS
8. SPECIAL PURPOSE TOOLS
9. ADVANTAGES
10. DISADVANTAGE
11. FUTURE SCOPE
12. CONCLUSION
13. REFERENCES

3. INTRODUCTION
 Product from NRCFOSS
 Linux distribution developed by C-DAC.
 Made specifically for the Indian environment for use in the government
domain.
 The ultimate goal is to localize in all Indian regional languages.

4. HISTORY
 BOSS 1.0(tarang) – released in 10 January 2007
 BOSS 2.0(anant) – released in 17 September 2007
 BOSS 3.0(tejas) - released in 04 September 2008
 BOSS 4.0(savir) - released in 02 August 2012
 BOSS 5.0(anokha) - released in 23 December 2013
- focused on enhanced Security and User friendliness.
 BOSS v6.0(anoop) - released in 04 March 2015
- supports Intel 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, a 3D desktop
environment, Graphic installer, Office application software.

5. FEATURES
 User Friendly Graphical Installer
 Indian version of OpenOffice – BharatheeyaOO
 3D Desktop
 Auto detection of devices
 Hardware support for digital cameras, printers, scanners, bluetooth, Wifi.
 Automounting of all Harddisk partitions
 Multimedia support

6. BOSS VARIANTS
 Desktop version
 Education version
 Server version
 Notebooks version
Desktop Version

7.  EduBOSS Version

9. ARCHITECTURE

10. COMPARISON
 BOSS Vs Commercial Equivalents(Windows)
Component BOSS Commercial
Office Suite Bharateeya OO Microsoft Office*
Internet Browser Iceweasel Internet Explorer
E-mail Client Icedove Outlook Express
Design/Desktop Publishing GIMP Adobe Photoshop*
Instant Messaging Client Pidgin Windows Messenger*
CD Burning Gnome Baker Nero*
Media Player Totem Windows Media Player
Audio Player Banshee Winamp*
PDF Viewer Evince Adobe PDF Viewer*

11. INTERNET TOOLS

12. SPECIAL PURPOSE TOOLS
 BOSS Bulk Document Converter
 BOSS Presentation Tool
 3D Desktop

13. ADVANTAGES
 Free to install, Easy to get
 A stable operating system
 Access to free software
 Easy updating software
 Available in many different languages

14. DISADVANTAGES
 BOSS cannot run many of the Windows Program.
 Learning BOSS is necessary as it is different from other operating system.

15. FUTURE SCOPE
Digital Data security for India especially, when countries like U.S and China
are leaving no opportunities to hack data from Indian servers and Its usefull
to digital india program.

16. CONCLUSION
This OS will be the best OS to use in the government offices to keep the
data safe and secure from the attack of hackers and it is alternative to the
windows os.

17. REFERENCES
 Aggarwal V., Alawadhi N. (2014),"Government’s OS BOSS dying a
slow death due to lack of patronage", ET Bureau.
 [Online]Available:http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014
09_24/news/542 _c-dac-advanced-computing-support
 Alspaugh, T.A., Asuncion, H.A., Scacchi, W. (2011).
 Dominik Richter, Hangjung Zo, Michael Maruschke,"A Comparative
Analysis of Open Source Software Usage in Germany, Brazil, and
India", IEEE, 2009.