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msgid "BOSS - Barath Operating System Solutions"
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"Siri and I are on a journey through India and Nepal, with the aim of "
"learning about needs of Debian derivatives, to improve Debian and encourage "
"closer integration."
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msgid "C-DAC and BOSS"
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"Centre for Development of Advanced Computing ([C-DAC][]) is a large "
"organization serving country- and state-level institutions in India, with "
"offices and training facilities several major cities.  In Chennai, C-DAC has "
"a staff of 25 developers working full time on Barath Operating System "
"Solutions ([BOSS][])."
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"BOSS is a Debian derivative with several flavors - a desktop for use at "
"primary schools (EduBOSS), a desktop for governmental offices (BOSS), and a "
"range of server-oriented use cases using same core as the desktops with "
"various (non-packaged) code and configuration on top."
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"The core common to all BOSS flavors is a derivative of Debian.  Major work "
"has been in strengthening localization and related code - including the "
"development of a font covering all officially supported indic scripts, "
"tuning input methods configuration, and bugfixing LibreOffice handling of "
"complex scripts.  All that work is all passed directly to upstream code "
"projects (some still show as derived work until sifting down again into "
"Debian)."
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"Besides locale derivations, BOSS currently includes 11 packages not yet in "
"Debian - a mixture of package dependencies, branding data and configuration "
"tweaks.  Seems most if not all can fit into Debian with a bit of "
"restructuring work."
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"[C-DAC]: <http://cdac.in/>\n"
"  \"Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)\"\n"
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"[BOSS]: <http://bosslinux.in/>\n"
"  \"Barath Operating System Solution (BOSS)\"\n"
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"[blend]: <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends#Terminology>\n"
"  \"Debian Pure Blend - subset of Debian configured for a target group\"\n"
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"As some of you know, I always had a special interest in low-resource (yet "
"general purpose) computers (partly driven by my lack of money to spend on "
"shinier hardware), and since ~2009 particularly in ARM-based computers."
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"After 4 days of meetings and discussion with C-DAC, - literally few minutes "
"before departure - I casually mentioned my interest in small computers, and "
"much to my surprise it turned out that C-DAC also works on that, just didn't "
"get around to mention it yet at the Debian wiki page."
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"C-DAC have worked for a year on tuning BOSS to work on the Vidyut laptop "
"(successor to the Aakash tablet).  All except builtin camera is allegedly "
"working."
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"C-DAC is also looking into Olimex boards - my favorites - possibly for use "
"with small server setups..."
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"...but our time was up, we had to leave for our train to Pune, so details on "
"that we will have to figure out through mail."
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"In the past, C-DAC have kept in touch with their users through BOSS-specific "
"places like a dedicated IRC channel.  Recent changes in management style at "
"the development office have caused less attention available to that "
"communication, however."
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"C-DAC have politely offered their code changes upstram for years, but maybe "
"\"too polite\": Maybe they have offered only polished fixes, being less loud "
"about \"interesting problems\"."
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"I suggested, as way to improve while limiting (ideally avoiding) extra work, "
"is to mentally take a step up the stream: Treat BOSS not as a derivative but "
"a subset of Debian itself, hang out and discuss issues and ideas at debian "
"irc channels, and maintain your packages directly in Debian."
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"Only parts unfit for Debian - secret stuff done for India military, and "
"dirty configuration hacks not yet possible within Debian Policy - really "
"need to be kept away from Debian."
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msgid "C-DAC agreed, and Debian now has a BOSS team!"
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"Anyone interested to follow BOSS as a Debian blend, and perhaps even "
"contribute with opinions and/or code, is quite welcome to join the newly "
"created mailinglist on Debian Alioth: "
"<https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/boss-devel>."
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"Our meetings with BOSS developers have been very pleasant.  Even those "
"working at the top of cloud or big data stacks - furthest away from our "
"mindset of tightly \"locking down\" all parts as packages - were patient "
"with us."
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"Thanks in particular to Prema S and Prathibha B, working on packaging of "
"BOSS for the past 5+ years, and both likely to enter the Debian New "
"Maintainer Queue before long :-)"
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