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Indian State Has Solution to End of Win XP Support

posted by janrinok on Monday March 24 2014, @06:11PM   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: 4, Insightful) by Taibhsear on Monday March 24 2014, @06:19PM

    by Taibhsear (1464) on Monday March 24 2014, @06:19PM (#20411)

    Why would you develop your own entire operating system when you can just buy the newest version from Microsoft?

    Really? Because then you wouldn't have to pay Microsoft and deal with their shitty non-secure software.

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  • (Score: 2) by Vanderhoth on Monday March 24 2014, @06:29PM

    by Vanderhoth (61) on Monday March 24 2014, @06:29PM (#20418)

    I'm replying to undo a moderation. I marked this as insightful, but I guess my finger twitched or something and it got switched to Redundant. I try to only give out positive moderation so sorry to the others who lost the mods I gave.

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    • (Score: 2) by egcagrac0 on Monday March 24 2014, @09:06PM

      by egcagrac0 (2705) on Monday March 24 2014, @09:06PM (#20554)

      Using the arrows to scroll seems to do that. The context remains the pull-down selector, rather than the page, at least until you get to the bottom of the selector..

      Try clicking in the border before you use the arrow keys (or pageup/pagedown) to scroll (or just click "moderate" right away).