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• Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS) is a free and open source Linux distribution developed by the National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) of India. BOSS GNU/Linux is also known by the acronym BOSS. The latest version is 6.0
• This software package has been described as "India's own PC operating system" and "the most meaningful product to come out of the Indian software industry in decades — and a work that a government department has done"
• The software has also been endorsed by the Government of India for adoption and implementation on a national scale. It was developed at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Chennai INDIA. BOSS GNU/Linux is an "LSB certified" Linux distribution: the software has been certified by the Linux Foundation for compliance with the Linux Standard Base standard. BOSS GNU/Linux is derived from Debian GNU/Linux.

Available Indian languages

BOSS GNU/Linux is available in the following languages of India:

• Assamese
• Bengali   
• Bodo   
• Gujarati   
• Hindi
• Kannada   
• Kashmiri   
• Konkani   
• Maithili   
• Malayalam
• Manipuri   
• Marathi   
• Odia  
• Punjabi   
• Tamil
• Telugu   
• Urdu   
• Arabic   
• Persian   
• Sanskrit

Source : From Wikipedia