Congratulations, IT Department. Thomas
. On 14 November 2011 09:00, Krittika <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/chennai/boss-shut-out-windows-247 > > After a request from the Union Ministry of Comm-unications and Information > Technology, the state government’s Information Technology department has > decided to say goodbye to Microsoft Windows. > > According to a government order dated Nove-mber 9, the IT department would > use the BOSS (Bharat Operating Sys-tem Solutions) operating system, which > is a free and open source computer operating system dev-eloped by the > National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Soft-ware of India. > All systems of the IT department will use BOSS from Monday. > > The operating system is Linux based and has been “endorsed by the > government of India for adoption and implementation on a national scale.” > It is available in almost all Indian languages including Tamil. Mr Santhosh > Babu, IT Secretary to the government of Tamil Nadu told this newspaper that > BOSS was a “very good operating system and costs next to nothing”. > > “It is an open source software and has many advantages. It does not crash > easily,” he said, adding that the BOSS software had also been installed in > the laptops distributed free to students. > > According to IAS Uma Shankar, since Linux updates itself, it never becomes > obsolete. “It is stable and does not slow down your system. It also comes > with lots of downloadable freebies and is completely secure. I have been > using it for a decade now and find it very cool.” > > The IT department has also made recommendations to other departments of > the Secre-tariat to install BOSS in their systems. > > -- > *Krittika Vishwanath* > Research Associate > IT for Change > In special consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC > www.ITforChange.net > Skype id: krittika85 > Tel:+91-80-2665 4134, 2653 6890. Fax:+91-80-4146 1055 > Mobile: +91 9535321980 > > Read our Teacher's Communities of Learning project's blogs, lesson > plans and discussions here: http://bangalore.karnatakaeducation.org.in/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > > -- With warm greetings. Joseph Thomas, [email protected]/[email protected], Mob : +91-9447738369/Res : 04842792369 ഇന്നലെകളില് നിന്നു് പഠിക്കുക, ഇന്നില് ജീവിക്കുക, നാളേയ്ക്കു് വേണ്ടി പ്രവര്ത്തിക്കുക. ഇന്നലെകളേക്കുറിച്ചു് ആകുലപ്പെടുകയോ ഊറ്റം കൊള്ളുകയോ അല്ല വേണ്ടതു്, പഠിക്കുകയാണു്. ഇന്നിനെക്കുറിച്ചും നാളെയേക്കുറിച്ചും ആകുലപ്പെട്ടിട്ടും കാര്യമില്ല, കാരണം ഇന്നെന്തെന്നു് ഇന്നലെ തീരുമാനിച്ചു് കഴിഞ്ഞു. നാളെയെ നമുക്കു് മാറ്റുകയുമാകാം. ഇന്നലെകളുടെ അനുഭവം ഉള്ക്കൊണ്ടു് നാളെയെ നമുക്കനുയോജ്യമാക്കാന് വേണ്ടിയുള്ള കൂട്ടായ ആസൂത്രണവും പ്രവര്ത്തനവുമാണു് ഓരോരുത്തരുടേയും കടമ.
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