Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-12 Thread Pranesh Prakash
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 May 2010 11:05 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: CDAC's BOSS is the only one I can think of in recent times It seems there's an attempt at a School OS, a joint collaboration by NCERT, IIT-Delhi and Knowledge Commons:

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread Pranesh Prakash
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 May 2010 11:05 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: sankarshan [11/05/10 11:02 +0530]: Does anyone keep a score of how many times the GoI and their ilk have traveled down this path ? CDAC's BOSS is the only one I can think of in

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Pranesh Prakash [11/05/10 14:08 +0530]: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 11:05 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: sankarshan [11/05/10 11:02 +0530]: Does anyone keep a score of how many times the GoI and their ilk have traveled down this path ? CDAC's BOSS is the only one I can think of in recent

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread Vijay Anand
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: Pranesh Prakash [11/05/10 14:08 +0530]: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 11:05 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: sankarshan [11/05/10 11:02 +0530]: Does anyone keep a score of how many times the GoI and their ilk have

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Vijay Anand [11/05/10 15:20 +0530]: Given how the 10$ - or was it 5$ laptop was essentially a thumb drive, wouldnt be surprised if this is another glitch by some reporter. The points behind this development seems to be security - which also sounds ridiculous that we want to develop simple OS to

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Vijay Anand [11/05/10 15:20 +0530]: Given how the 10$ - or was it 5$ laptop was essentially a thumb drive, wouldnt be surprised if this is another glitch by some reporter. The points behind this development

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread Vijay Anand
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: Vijay Anand [11/05/10 15:20 +0530]: Given how the 10$ - or was it 5$ laptop was essentially a thumb drive, wouldnt be surprised if this is another glitch by some reporter. The points behind this development

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread Valsa Williams
If all this is true I shudder to think of the enormity of such a project. They should learn from the Indian Airforce and Army who have built secure tiers over a Linux OS On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Vijay Anand vi...@vijayanand.name wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Suresh

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread ss
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 10:50:16 am Valsa Williams wrote: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Tech/Enterprise-IT/Infrastucture/Govt-to -develop-own-operating-system/articleshow/5913140.cms Question from a dumb user. Does India actually have to develop a whole new operating system? Surely it

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread Ramakrishna Reddy
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Valsa Williams valsa.willi...@gmail.com wrote: If all this is true I shudder to think of the enormity of such a project. GoI does not realise that security can always be bypassed, and that is something they have to live with. Considering sending emails to chief

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread ss
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 4:04:59 pm Valsa Williams wrote: If all this is true I shudder to think of the enormity of such a project. They should learn from the Indian Airforce and Army who have built secure tiers over a Linux OS Ah. Now I understand. If the Government does the same thing, the

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy ramkr...@gmail.com wrote: $40/ $10 laptop which leads to nothing but mockery on slashdot and rediff forums . Ouch, mockery on rediff forums, that's harsh. That's like getting mocked by 6 year olds with indo-centric utopian delusions. Cheeni

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread Pranesh Prakash
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 May 2010 04:47 PM, ss wrote: Surely it should be possible to customize some existing code from Linux and use it on GoI computers. Or have I misunderstood? It is unclear what that story means, frankly. Because develop own OS could as

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread Thaths
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Valsa Williams valsa.willi...@gmail.com wrote: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Tech/Enterprise-IT/Infrastucture/Govt-to-develop-own-operating-system/articleshow/5913140.cms NEW DELHI: The government has set in motion an ambitious plan to develop its own

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-11 Thread Vijay Anand
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Valsa Williams valsa.willi...@gmail.com wrote: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Tech/Enterprise-IT/Infrastucture/Govt-to-develop-own-operating-system/articleshow/5913140.cms NEW DELHI: The

[silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-10 Thread Valsa Williams
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Tech/Enterprise-IT/Infrastucture/Govt-to-develop-own-operating-system/articleshow/5913140.cms NEW DELHI: The government has set in motion an ambitious plan to develop its own software and end the reliance on foreign operating systems and anti-virus products

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-10 Thread sankarshan
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Valsa Williams valsa.willi...@gmail.com wrote: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Tech/Enterprise-IT/Infrastucture/Govt-to-develop-own-operating-system/articleshow/5913140.cms [snip] The government formed a high-level taskforce in February to devise a plan

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

2010-05-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
CDAC's BOSS is the only one I can think of in recent times sankarshan [11/05/10 11:02 +0530]: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Valsa Williams valsa.willi...@gmail.com wrote: