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Indian State Has Solution to End of Win XP Support

posted by janrinok on Monday March 24 2014, @02:11PM   Printer-friendly
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?"

 
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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday March 24 2014, @03:10PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Monday March 24 2014, @03:10PM (#20448)

    Alternate headline: India Switches From Microsoft Like A BOSS

    This is like a triple punchline here...I love it.

    1) This is a ignificant portion of India we're talking about here, so a large population.
    2) They're switching away from Microsoft *to Linux* (I think most of us can celebrate that).
    3) The Linux distro is called BOSS.

    You can't make up stuff like this :-)

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