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Re: Government's OS BOSS dying a slow death due to lack of patronage



There team is not so responsive, They have asked some help previously and after some time when I asked the status of new updates or released they haven't turned back.


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On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> wrote:
Quoting shirish शिरीष (2014-09-24 06:51:59)
> 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.
>
> I have much less knowledge about BOSS so hopefully somebody can shed
> more light if they want.

Perhaps just a typo: Organisation name is C-DAC.

Here are more info about Boss Linux and how much they've derived from
Debian:

https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/BOSSlinux
https://dex.alioth.debian.org/census/BOSSlinux/patches/


 - Jonas

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