Open source Operating System The Story in India Jayanta Parial

Creation & Maintenance of Knowledge bank repository for education domain

BOSS Linux 1.0 (Tarang) – released in January 2006

• BOSS Linux 1.0 (Tarang) – released in January 2006

• BOSS Linux 2.0 (Anant) – released in September 2007

• BOSS 3.0 (Tejas) – released in September 2008

• Current version – BOSS 4.0 – released in February 2011

• It consists of 3 sections

• Install – allows User to install BOSS Linux on to hard disk and work on it

• Live – Lets you to have the BOSS desktop in your system without installing

• Utility – Consists of add-on packages that an be installed in BOSS for some specific applications like Web Server, education tools

• Kernel – 2.6.32 and 2.6.37

• BOSS Linux comes with Gnome desktop