Submitted 1 year ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
Based on Ubuntu. Interface and functionality like Windows, users will not feel much difference. BRICS countries committed to their own Linux distributions. South Africa has been the exception.
I highly doubt the Indian military was using Windows for mission-critical equipment or systems any way. This news is about the normal bureaucracy using Linux, which is not new in India’s case.
Wouldn’t surprise me if they actually run windows xp on that mission-critical equipment.
Lol
Kerala has been using FOSS for a long time now. It’s a good step. In Kerala computer literacy centres actually teach Linux so hopefully this increase Linux usage in education sector as well.
BOSS was based on Debian, not Ubuntu. It was developed for the specific use case of being a standard client OS for Govt service computers, and never intended as a general-purpose distro for the public. Your expectations are wrong.
Also, there is no monolithic “Indian education system” whatsoever. In any case schools teaching Windows and MS Office to kids makes a LOT more sense since it’s something they have way higher chances of needing proficiency in for their future academic/professional lives. It’s not practical in any way to teach Linux instead.
We don’t have Linux in professional work because we don’t know Linux and We don’t know Linux because we don’t have Linux in professional work See it’s a chicken egg problem. Students should be encouraged to use Linux at school and on their PC.
Have you asked CDAC for the sources? They are very friendly people, the phone nrs are on CDAC and BOSS websites. They are knowledgeable and know about Open Source licenses. They will share if you ask, otherwise: file an RTI.
Our college had Ubuntu on every computer and I loved it!
Lucky u!!
South Africa has been the exception.
Well yes, it’s really difficult to switch when government only just managed to migrate to Windows 10 on most machines, and still uses Microsoft’s document formats for everything aside from PDF.
Up until a few years ago, UNISA was still using public-facing IIS servers and SARS was paying up the wazoo to maintain old Java applets that people used to file their taxes.
based in ubuntu
yep. Some people will never learn anything
Whats wrong
Was not Ubuntu the south África flavor?
“He’s out of line, but he’s right.”
Why don’t they just use vanilla Ubuntu instead of making their own flavor?
You usually want to know and control what goes into your distro, especially if we’re talking about more critical systems. If you just install Ubuntu, you’re handing over control to its creator, Canonical.
What will be they office suite?
M365 is an option even without Windows, but LibreOffics and/or NextCloud could work too.
Probably open office
That project has been dead for essentially a decade now.
The German city of Munich did that a long time ago, and later they came back crawling to Bill Gates to take their money again.
I’m not sure about this article.
Back in the day it was hardware incompatibility that was cited as the prime reason to backtrack to Windows.
They still had to buy new hardware, because the newer Windows version didn’t support the old hardware anymore.
While sounds like a plausible reason when talking about Linux, what kind of incompatibility might that be - in 2017 in a pure office environment? You could buy Linux computers off the shelf at that time.
How will active directory and other shit like printer work ? Anyone has video or article of maya OS interface ?
LDAP, maybe? And you can share printers in Linux as well… as long as you have drivers.
realmd and sambafor AD, and smbclient can be used to map network printers.
As for how Maya OS looks, it’s going to be used for their defence systems, so it’s highly unlikely we’ll get to see it. But it’s supposedly based on Ubuntu and has a “familiar” interface, so I imagine it might look something like Zorin OS.
Well, that took them long enough.
I don’t know about other governments and institutions but Windows went to shit long long ago.
I switched to Ubuntu (lubuntu or xubuntu back then) when I saw all the MetroUI shenanigans.
Since then, I have played with many kind of Linux distribution and currently settled with a mix of TrueNAS Scale, Linux Mint (cinnamon), Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu (core), NixOs and Android (mobile, tablet, nvidia shield pro).
After also switching family and relatives over to Mint or Ubuntu (the less tech savvy ones or those that did everything in the browser email/YouTube/online shopping), my life became so much easier whenever I gave them tech support. Nowadays, I almost exclusively give tech support for Linux systems for family and avoid Apple/Microsoft whenever wherever I can.
Really, windows will continue to go downhill (Microsoft account, advertising within OS, untimely updates, updates that breaks whatever whenever, the list is endless…). ChatGPT will give them a crutch but not forever.
Hopefully this work out better than Germany. Ever since Vista, the need to switch really has become a lot more justified, and only further compounded when Microsoft decided to stop committing to Windows 10.
but why? China it’s the spying one, everybody knows it!
BRICS isn’t an alliance or a cohesive entity. It’s the equivalent of the G7 for major non-western economies. India and China hate each other. China and Russia only really get along in being anti-US. Brazil and South Africa have no real intersection with the geopolitical goals of the other. BRICS isn’t a geopolitical anything of any meaning.
I suspect India is doing this for the simple reason that they have zero control over Windows while they would have as much control as they want over internal-Linux use. They’re large enough that they can make it work, assuming they’re willing to dedicate the people and the money to it and put up with the non-insubstantial switching costs. Open question on what their follow through will look like, but it’s entirely within their capability.
Huge win obviously and a very good choice for a lot of computers that just need a basic office suite. Unfortunately some users will lose their tooling but I expect a lot of gov. Services now to be using web-based tools exclusively.
ghostface@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This was proposed once before with Germany going open source. They eventually went back.
I hope this is different, would love some nation state backing of FOSS
jesterraiin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Germany’s attempt at switching to Linux is a prime example of bad management, wrong decisions and, well, idiocy.
If memory serves: they chose Debian, instead of Ubuntu and didn’t do enough research concerning hardware compatibility. When they were already in progress it turned out they had craploads of office hardware like scanners, printers and such, that weren’t working under Debian.
Hazdaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But that should be a lesson to people as to why going Linux is foolhardy.
If the Germany government, with all its money and resources and knowledge, failed at switching (or staying switched), then why the bloody hell should an individual or business? I think the Germans have a well deserved reputation for being smart and tech savvy, so if they can’t do it, then why should some random individual out there bother trying? And blaming it on the distro is ridiculous. I have zero interest in Linux, but even I’ve heard of Debian (as well as Ubuntu and others), so there is no excuse why such a well known distro be incapable of handling what the Germans might have wanted.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Got a source other than “Germany” wanted to switch to Linux? The only thing I am aware of is the city of Munich switching for a couple of years, which went fine, but then a new mayor from the conservative shitheads who has about as much clue of technology as a towel probably rolled it all back to Windows.
What is “Debian, instead of Ubuntu” supposed to imply? Ubuntu is a piece of shit ever since canonical ramped up the enshittification, first with desktop search expressions being default-forwarded to canonical servers, and then with snap repositories under control of the corporation.