BOSS LINUX

• FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

• DEVELOPED BY NRCFOSS
• LATEST VERSION IS BOSS GNU/LINUX 4.0
• INDIA’S OWN PC OS
• DERIVED FROM DEBIAN AN OS USES LINUX
KERNEL
• DISTRIBUTED UNDER GENERAL PUBLIC
LICENSE
• BOSS GNU/Linux has had five major releases
till February 2011.
VERSION CODE NAME DATE OF RELEASE
BOSS UEVALUATION SETHU

BOSS GNU/LINUX V1.0 TARANG

BOSS LINUX V2.0 ANANT

BOSS GNU/LINUX JAN 2008

SERVER
BOSS GNU/LINUX V3.0 TEJAS SEP 2008

BOSS GNU/LINUX V4.0 SAVIR FEB 2011

• DEVELOPED AND DISTRIBUTED BY CDAC
• SUPPORTS INTEL AND AMD X86/X86-64
MACHINES
• BOSS GNU/LINUX FEATURES :-
– WEB SERVER
– PROXY SERVER
– DATABASE SERVER
– MAIL SERVER
– FILE AND PRINT SERVER
• AVAILABLE WITH 18 INDIAN LANGUAGES
• COUPLED WITH GNOME AND KDE
ENVIRONMENT
 INSTALLATION
• SYSTEM REQ
– 5 GB HDD
– 512 MB RAM
– DVD ROM DRIVE
 PROCEDURE
• SET UP BOOT PRIORITY
• SELECT DVD DRIVE
• BOOT FROM DISC