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

To: shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-in <debian-dug-in@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Government's OS BOSS dying a slow death due to lack of patronage
From: Faheem Mitha <faheem@faheem.info>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:58:37 +0530 (IST)
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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?

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 Debianbased distribution. I hope that doesn't sound offensive.

Is there some reason they don't just use Debian? Specialised localizationrequirements, perhaps?


                                                          Regards, Faheem

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