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Indian State Has Solution to End of Win XP Support

posted by janrinok on Monday March 24 2014, @02:11PM   
from the linux-is-the-boss dept.

prospectacle writes about another possible shift from Win XP to Linux:

"With Microsoft ceasing to support Windows XP, the Tamil Nadu state government has advised its departments to switch to Bharat Operating System Solutions, also known as BOSS Linux.

BOSS Linux is developed by India's "National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software", which is financed by their Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. BOSS supports national languages including Bengali, Telugu, and Tamil.

Why would you develop your own entire operating system when you can just buy the newest version from Microsoft?"

• Bad conclusion Bad conclusion (Score: 5, Insightful) by egcagrac0 on Monday March 24 2014, @02:18PM

  by egcagrac0 (2705) on Monday March 24 2014, @02:18PM (#20409)

  Why would you develop your own entire operating system when you can just buy the newest version from Microsoft?

  It's not a from-scratch developed operating system; it's a customized Debian based Linux.

  The real question should be "Since we have to switch, do we want to buy something that doesn't quite do what we want, or do we want to build something that meets our needs perfectly?"

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• Re:Bad conclusion (Score: 1) by e_armadillo on Monday March 24 2014, @02:21PM

  by e_armadillo (3695) on Monday March 24 2014, @02:21PM (#20413)

  amen

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