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.
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