OS Maya is based on the open-source Ubuntu Linux distribution and has been developed locally by government agencies within a time period of six months. Taking into account the Army’s initial trials with BOSS as far back as over six years, the prevailing query is why the government chose to create a fresh operating system, especially when reports suggest that the Indian Army was already experimenting with BOSS. In 2017, Army’s Jammu & Kashmir-based Northern Command integrated the indigenous operating system to enhance cyber security and protect the Army’s communication and information networks from cyber attacks. Available in 19 Indian languages, BOSS was also being used by the Indian Army. In 2007, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) released the Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS) with the aim of promoting the adoption of free and open-source software throughout India. However, Maya OS is not the first Indian indigenously built operating system. The move may be late, but is a welcoming one indeed. Here, some may argue that the development is a decade late, given China has been using Kylin, their own indigenously developed OS, for over a decade now. While Maya OS will be used by the Defence Ministry for now, eventually the plan is to replace Windows across the Army, Airforce, and Navy, forming the future operational system. According to The Hindu, the Defence Ministry has ditched Windows for an indigenously built operating system - Maya. Microsoft Windows is probably the most-widely used operating system (OS) in the world, so much so that is the OS used by Indian defence forces as well.
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