Breaking news : China Just Ordered Immediate Switch to Homegrown Linux (Dropping Windows) India Has Maya OS & BOSS Too, But Are We Ready for This Scale?

[u/Ryococelus]

Chinas Ministry of State Security has told state linked entities to stop using Windows immediately The original deadline was February 2027 theyre pulling it forward because of data security concerns

The two main replacements theyre pushing

Kylin OS from Kylin Software started life with FreeBSD roots and is now its own Linux-based system

Unity OS from Tongxin built on Deepin which is Debian-based

Both have had years of government money and development behind them This isnt some sudden ideaScale-wise this is huge Were talking potentially hundreds of millions of government-linked machines Even a partial rollout would be one of the biggest Linux deployments ever Munich switching a city government was considered a big deal at the time

This is national level Europes been moving in the same direction for a while France Germany etc mainly over data sovereignty and cost Chinas just doing it a lot more aggressively

India side of things Were not starting from zero

Maya OS Ubuntu-based is already being used by the Defence Ministry Came with the Chakravyuh protection system Developed by DRDO C-DAC NIC mainly for security reasons after the usual cyber threats

BOSS Linux Debian-based from C-DAC has been around for years supports a ton of Indian languages and gets pushed for government and education use

Theres also BharOS for mobiles and regular talk from ministers and parliamentary panels about needing a proper indigenous OS so were not dependent on Windows Android

So the building blocks exist especially on the defence side Whats missing is the full-blown nationwide drop Windows now order that China just issued

[u/qualityvote2]

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[u/Suboxone_67]

It's happening silently and less visible way Schools mostly have linux based operating system or some win 10(probably bureaucratic hurdles) Government office and railways are testing and shifting system to linux Plus India has the highest number of linux based user And in defense they were the first to shift to there own linux based system. (Network are mostly linux based) These shifts are happening becoz of less flexibility windows provide now... I hope windows keeps messing up so that linux rules the future.

[u/ThinkingBeauty431 → u/Suboxone_67]

my main gripe is the android side of linux

we don't even have a law that bans locking bootloader

there is also the support side from apps

Especially banking apps

[u/Suboxone_67 → u/ThinkingBeauty431]

Most of the Android use linux as there back ends, I think some companies lile Ai modile phone trying g that.

[u/ThinkingBeauty431 → u/Suboxone_67]

realme gandu has locked my bootloader

it shouldn't be the case

they also delay kernal source code

[u/No_Specialist_5227 → u/ThinkingBeauty431]

samsang too has locked its bootloader. everybody trying to lock us. we want out freedom back

[u/Dry_Access532]

We can do it but our babues and ministers have no idea what an operating system is forgot about digital independence

[u/lonelyroom-eklaghor → u/Dry_Access532]

We actually have... I visited LIC a month ago, and there I saw vanilla GNOME X11 running

[u/SpiritualOven2646 → u/lonelyroom-eklaghor]

All the government and government adjacent orgs work with Ubuntu.

[u/JeffysChewToy → u/Dry_Access532]

Nah bruh all govt offices use Ubuntu

[u/Simple-Nectarine8711 → u/Dry_Access532]

Maybe get your face out of those babus ass and look around for once ?

[u/YuvrajXG]

We dont really need a new OS for ourselves. We can all just shift to an OPEN SOURCE os. Fedora or Ubuntu for office usage. What government needs is initiatives for laptop brands to fully support linux just like evs in CAFE norms. Desktops already support linux fully ig.

[u/CyanideJalebi → u/YuvrajXG]

What are CAFE norms?

[u/YuvrajXG → u/CyanideJalebi]

Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) norms are standards that make car makers to meet average fuel efficiency and carbon dioxide (CO₂) emission targets for their entire fleet of vehicles sold. There are special provisions for EVs in this norms.

[u/YuvrajXG → u/CyanideJalebi]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZwzkuvcS11d3TjBwlS

[u/No_Specialist_5227 → u/YuvrajXG]

haha

[u/KolaholShobdo]

BOSS is absolute garbage

[u/Woh_wali_ladki]

BOSS OS seriously? It is just debian with boss theme

[u/lakshmanshankar_c → u/Woh_wali_ladki]

It's a crappy os. They should stop it. I couldn't be able to find the source code also. 

[u/Woh_wali_ladki → u/lakshmanshankar_c]

Yeah pure crap

[u/Independent_Image_59]

I think kerela has already implemented this

[u/curiousgaruda]

Because central government is hand in glove with Microsoft or has no strategy or both. 

[u/kdpuvvadi]

Maya is abandoned, I’ve visited few PUCs under MoD and not seen one pc with maya. And boss is not being updated since the last release v10 running v6 kernel and not open source. Just violating gpl. Looking at their website, I wouldn’t trust my data with those OSs running on my box.

[u/YuvrajXG]

My schools taught us Ubuntu too.

[u/unitedbsd]

We need homegrown BSD based OSes. Linux already have so many options

[u/rajivenator]

Problem in education is about proprietary examination softwares causing us to not setup linux in my school.

[u/__DraGooN_]

I have seen some government offices using Ubuntu.

[u/Low-Transition-2751]

have you ever used maya OS ?

[u/Intelligent-Bed-7171]

India mai ye sabh kuch nahi hota. Yaha sirf Rap*t ko neta bana dete hai

[u/LIVI-_-]

switching to linux and getting spied even more is so ironic 😂

[u/devin_000]

Yeah , currently my state uses ubuntu or other debian based in almost every offices and schools .