The latest BOSS GNU/Linux version 10.0 (pragya) has been unveiled by Shri. Magesh Ethirajan, Director General of C-DAC. This release aims to enhance the user experience in desktops and laptops with latest applications.
The BOSS Supporting latest kernel, drivers, firmwares and extensive applications.
The BOSS Desktop is featured with a user-friendly interface with Windows 11 and other open-source themes, thereby enriching the overall user experience.
BOSS – Search from Desktop
BOSS desktop includes an integrated search facility which can be used to launch applications, switch windows, and open recent documents and settings. The integrated search lets you to find the application on your system, faster and easier. Type any query into the Dash home and will determine which categories of applications of relevant to search, returning the best results.
Libreoffice
Libreoffice - full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office. Libreoffice suite comprises programs to do word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams and drawings, maintain databases, and compose mathematical formulae.
- A new start center gives previews and easy access to recently used documents
- Inbuilt dictionaries and hunspell support
- Improved PDF support
- New spreadsheet functions
- Updated scientific and number formats
- Word – compatible text highlighting
All-in-One Control Panel
BOSS allows you to explore your system settings from the settings panels. The Systems settings have also been reorganized making it straightforward to find the setting you want, and many settings panels have also been redesigned to make them easier to use.
Videos
A simple interface of Videos let you focus on movie and your watching experience.
CD and DVD authoring tool
K3B is CD and DVD authoring application provides a graphical user interface to perform CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX CD/DVDs andl also performs disc-to-disc copies.
Simple Scan
Simple Scan is an efficient and easy to use scanner application. Scanning a document or photo takes one click.
VLC
VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Evolution
BOSS lets you to manage your mail accounts with Evolution, which has features includes secure network connections encrypted with SSL, TLS, STARTTLS and son on.
Firefox
Latest web browsers to deliver safe, easy web browsing with familiar user interface, enhanced security features including protection from online identity theft, and integrated search let you get the most out of the web.
GIMP
Applications ranging from simple paint program to an expert quality photo retouching program, a mass production image renderer, or even an image format converter.
Webcam
The application Cheese is to take photos and videos of you with your webcam and features to add special effects to photos and videos.