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?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @12:14AM
Take take a subject who has only used Windoze 7.
Define a task e.g. access a web page, locate a paragraph of text, insert that into a document and save it.
Have him do this on Tiles8 and time it.
Repeat with the same subject using Linux Mint or ZorinOS.
Compare numbers.
Any guesstimates on the outcome?
-- gewg_