‘Make in India’, the initiative by NDA government seems to be changing India slowly. Several small and big changes have been observed in a span of this 1-2 years. Well, these changes have made effective changes in nation. Recently BOSS, new operating system to be launched by Indian government is gathering fame in media and deserve applause. Sources are describing it a stream of Make in India. Indian government in eyeing to replace the current Microsoft operating system with BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions). The operating system is going through tests, and reports revealed that even Indian army is also not able to crack the code of BOSS.
More About BOSS
BOSS is the operating system made by India’s National Resource Center for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Chennai. Well C-DAC is famous for PARAM series of super computer. The operating system is based on Linux and is an open source operating system. Made in India and for Indians, it is developed for Indians by keeping their requirements in mind. It supports 20 languages and is currently made for usage in PC desktop and can be further made for other devises.
Why new OS is required
The question that emerges here is that what is the need of this OS in India, when Microsoft is fulfilling all the needs. As per the revelations by Edward Snowden, India is one of the most watched nations, mostly by China and US. Several hacking attempts catered by China have been reported and are serious threat for India. He also revealed that US government has allowed NSA to keep an eye on BJP in 2010 which was the main opposition party at that time and won the biggest election in 2014. So these factors lead to an acute need of a secure and safe operating system to fence the online worms. The reports says that government will move the offices form windows to BOSS.
Challenges Ahead
The operating system is not yet perfectly implemented. The OS was initially released in 2007, but the adoption of this OS is seen low in government offices and departments. But the version, which will be released next week and is developed by DRDO and Gujarat t\Technical University along with some computer experts is expected to be much better in performance and security phase.
It is not the first time that India has made such steps in IT sector. ISRO has also made its own app known as SAKAAR for android devices with ICS 4.0.3 and above. The app is having a live camera view to represent the actual physical world. Virtual objects are superimposed over camera view using 3D models, videos and images.
Many more apps and software’s have been developed by Indian super minds, marking their expertise. BOSS is the requirement of India and is critically needed for safeguarding Indian servers and data. Most important thing is to make a safe distance from expert nations like China, which have some points of disagreements with India. Last year Indian Air Force has asked its personals to stop using Xiaomi smartphones which is said to be sending data to a Chinese server liked with ministry of information industry in China. So, these aspects are kept in mind to secure nation form external threats and these have to be eradicated first as digitization is covering the nation.
