Faheem Mitha <faheem@faheem.info> writes: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, shirish शिरीष wrote: > >> Hi all, >> Saw this in the newspaper today :- >> >> http://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/policy/governments-os-boss-dying-a-slow-death-due-to-lack-of-patronage/43300186 > >> For people uninitiated, BOSS is Debian+some homegrown code. As nobody >> (except people from defence and BOSS own people) has access to the >> source repository, we have no idea as to how much they take from >> Debian or Ubuntu's source repositories and how much of it is being >> made by C-DAV people for BOSS. > > What is C-DAV? Its C-DAC. > >> I have much less knowledge about BOSS so hopefully somebody can shed >> more light if they want. > > The mind boggles slightly at the Government of India supporting a > Debian based distribution. I hope that doesn't sound offensive. Well it was released long back probably when I was in college dates back to 2008 IIRC. > > Is there some reason they don't just use Debian? Specialised > localization requirements, perhaps? > C-DAC sponsored Jonas's India travel for miniDebconf in 2011 where a team from C-DAC worked with Jonas to make BOSS a pure blend, I don't know how much they followed up and what really happened later, probably Jonas can fill in. -- Vasudev Kamath http://copyninja.info Connect on ~friendica: copyninja@samsargika.copyninja.info IRC nick: copyninja | vasudev {irc.oftc.net | irc.freenode.net} GPG Key: C517 C25D E408 759D 98A4 C96B 6C8F 74AE 8770 0B7E
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