With the imagination of the ‘Make in India’ thing in the head, the government has confronted and expanded an open-source Linux-integrated operating system of our own named BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions). With the imagination of 'Atmanirbhar Bharat,' it is considered as an 'Indigenous’ alternative to the Microsoft Windows operating system, which is the powerful Operating System in practice ahead of central as well as state government computer systems.

"Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) has addressed among every state government for the workable deployment of BOSS Linux across all the states and the Union Territories,” stated an official. Formed within the boundaries of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), the administration has trusted the state-owned, IT firm based in Chennai with the maintenance and development of BOSS, the Debian GNU/Linux-based operating system that supports languages among Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil, as well as Maithili and Bodo.

According to administrators and the officials, the enhanced invasion of BOSS is demanded to have a progressive influence on the Government’s Digital India strategy as it possesses to assure that a more extensive number of people can hold access to software in their regional languages as well to reach the Internet easily and more swiftly. 

The state authorized National Informatics Centre provides established software Windows including Redhat Linux to departments of the Government. The BOSS version of the Linux operating system is available for free and can be conveniently downloaded and availability of compact discs are being made as well for free distribution.

“The total downloads till now is reported somewhere around 70,000. If states continued to move to BOSS as an effective operating system for their IT interfaces, these estimates would go beyond easily,” told an executive.

Before its judgment to demand states to deploy the BOSS, the Centre has attempted pushing the operating system in the departments owned by the central government. Around the number of 2.5 million deployments of BOSS Linux are been performed by C-DAC in the education, administration, and e-governance divisions till date.

To obtain the switch-over imaginable, the Centre has requested C-DAC and additional agencies to assure that BOSS Support Centres are fastened up over the nation and works are being conveyed to promote the effectiveness of the operating system in India.

BOSS 7.0, the most advanced version of the BOSS operating system, reportedly arrives with various new applications essentially concentrated on improved protection and user-friendly User Interference.