Boss (Indian) Window

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INTRODUCTION ON BOSS

Jayanta Parial

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NRCFOSS

Mission

Foster an ecosystem for Open Source, Open Standards and

Open Systems in India, integrating and benefiting the efforts and

needs of all stake holders

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NRCFOSS - Objectives

Setting up of facilities to promote collaborative research, designand development, training of manpower.

Develop India relevant Operating system with domainspecific bundling, with associated support.

Promote the development, deployment and adoption ofFOSS Tools, Technologies, Products, Architectures andSolutions in various application domains (Education, SME’sand Government environment)

To cooperate and collaborate with national andinternational institutions, research laboratories and otheracademic/research institutes

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NRCFOSS - Objectives

To organize study programmes, lectures, symposia, conferences exhibitions and similar promotional activities related to FOSS development

To establish and maintain a research and reference library in pursuance of the objectives of the centre

To establish & maintain National FOSS Resource Portal

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BOSS

Bharat Operating System Solutions(BOSS)

Product from NRCFOSS

Linux distribution developed by C-DAC for enhancing the use of Free/Open

Source Software in the country.

Made specifically for the Indian environment , it consists of a pleasing

Desktop environment coupled with Indian language support and other

packages that are most relevant for use in the government domain.

a Linux Distribution forked from Debian

The ultimate goal is to localize into all 22 official Indian regional languages.

So this benefits non-english speakers to reach technology that bridge digital

divide in India.

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Free & Open Source Software(FOSS)

FOSS is software that has made its source code free and public and allows – perhaps even motivates – users to change the source code and redistribute the derivative software.

It is often available with no license fee.

The Free Software movement focuses on moral and ethical issues

relating to the freedom of users to use, study, modify and redistribute

software.

The promise of open source is better quality,higher reliability,more

flexibility and lower cost.

The word “Free” in free software doesn't represent price instead it

represents the freedom to use the software.

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What is Debian?

Debian, SUSE, Redhat, Mandriva, Fedora and some of the linux distributions

These distributions in common will contain Linux Kernel and their own set of applications.

Debian is an volunteer organization dedicated to developing free software and promoting the ideals of the Free Software Foundation.

Debian, a non-commercial distribution

Debian comes with more than 26,000 software packages for eleven computer architectures.

Debian offers GNOME, the default desktop, along with KDE and Xfce as alternatives.

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BOSS Overview

BOSS 1.0(tarang) – released in January 2007

BOSS 2.0(anant) – released in September 2007

Latest Version - BOSS 3.0(tejas)

It consists of 3 sections:

Install - The Installable allows the user to install the BOSS GNU/Linux onto the Harddisk and work on it.

Live - lets you to have the BOSS Desktop in your system without installing it on your harddisk.

Utility - consists of addon packages that can be installed in BOSS for some specific applications like webserver, education tools, openoffice language packages etc.

Kernel – 2.6.22-3-486

BOSS 3.0 comes with two desktops – Gnome & KDE

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BOSS FEATURES

User Friendly Graphical Installer

Indian version of OpenOffice – BharatheeyaOO

3D Desktop

Auto detection of devices

Hardware support for digital cameras, printers, scanners, bluetooth, Wifi.

Automounting of all Harddisk partitions

Localization support for desktop

Smart Common Input Method

Migration tool - Bulk document converter

Internet tools –Pidgin, Firefox-3.0, X-chat, Ekiga

Multimedia support

Kennel – An application to send SMS

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OverviewConfiguration of BOSS Components (Network, Printer, Mailclient)

Partition Editor

Bluetooth

BharateeyaOO

SCIM

Multimedia (Movie Player, Music Player, Sound Recorder)

Burning CDs & DVDs

Protecting Data from Unauthorized Access

Internet Tools (Ekiga, Pidgin, Xchat)

OnScreen Keyboard & Orca

Special Purpose Tools (BOSS Bulk Document Converter, BOSS

Presentation Tool, 3D Desktop)

Customizing Application Names

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Configuration of BOSS Components

Network Configuration

Prerequesites

If DHCP – your IP will be automatically configured

If Static IP,

- Find out your IP address from your Network Administrator. It will be in

the form of xxx.xxx.xxx.xx[x].

- And, your Gateway Address.

Simple steps for network configuration:

Go to System -> Administration -> Networking.

Select the type of connection ie., Ethernet or Wifi or modem.

Set the IP address, Gateway etc.. (or) DHCP.

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Printer Configuration

Steps for Printer Configuration

Go to System -> Administration -> Printing and Double Click on New Printer.

Select the Network Printer , select the type of the printer and enter the IP address, click “Forward”.

Select the Printer Model, click “Apply” .

To make it as Default Printer

Right click on the printer configured and select “Make Default”

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Installing Printer drivers externally if not available in BOSS

If you are not able to find your printer model in the list provided in “Step 2 of 2 Printer Driver” then download the divers from the following website:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi

Here you select the printer company and the model from the select box and click on “Show”.

This will follow up a page where you need to search for the Recommended Drivers line and click on “Custom PPD” or “Download PPD” [Differs based on printer].

Save this PPD file in your system.

Now select the Printing option from System –> Administration –> Printing as shown above and in the Step 2 of configuration (figure shown below) click on “Install Driver” and select the saved PPD file. This installs your printer divers into your system.

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Mail Client

Mail Client is a program that is used to send and receive emails.

One of the famous e-mail client is Icedove.

To start Icedove choose Applications -> Internet -> Icedove Mail Client

Select the type of account click “Next”.

On the next screen, enter the Email account details.

Specify the incoming and outgoing server information

Enter the name by which you would like to refer the account

A screen showing the account information appears. Click “Finish” to

save these settings and exit the account wizard.

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Partition Editor

Partition Editor provides a GUI for creating,destroying,resizing, moving partitions

To use Partition Editor choose System -> Administration -> Partition Editor

Creating a new partition

Select an unallocated area and click the “New” button in the toolbar to create a new partition. A new window appears and lets you chose the size, file system, type of partition etc.,

Deleting a partition

The second icon on the toolbar is for deleting the selected partition. If you want to delete a partition, select that partition and click the “Delete” icon and then click “Apply”.

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Partition Editor

Resizing a partition

Click the partition that is to be resized and then select “Resize/Move” from the “Partition” menu or click “Resize/Move” icon from the toolbar.

Copying a partition

You must first select the partition you want to copy. Rightclick on the partition and click “Copy”.

After copying the partition, you must choose an unallocated area to activate “Paste” button.

You may wish to resize the partition you want to paste: same size or bigger? (A smaller partition is impossible!). After you have pasted, you can click "Apply".

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Bluetooth

Bluetooth

Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices such as mobile phones, laptops, PCs

Transfer data from your PC to other external device(a device that supports bluetooth).

Activate bluetooth in both the PC and the external device.

Rightclick on the file you want to send through bluetooth and select “Sent to...”.

A window appears. In “Sent to” select the device to which you want to transfer the file.

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Bluetooth

Transfer data from external device(a device that supports bluetooth) to your PC.

External device will detect your PC as 'boss0' (scan it)

Send file from your device using bluetooth.

In your PC , Accept request from your device.

Data will be in your $HOME folder.

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BharateeyaOO

The OpenOffice package contains a set of applications for

performing a number of tasks like word processing, spread

sheet, etc.

BharateeyaOO is a project to enable Indian languages support in

OpenOffice

The BharateeyaOO suite is the customized version of Open

Office, with all the menus, status bars etc., localized for Indian

languages.

Languages supported -

Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tam

il, Telugu and Urdu.

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BharateeyaOO Components

The BharateeyaOO office suite includes the following components:

Writer (word processor)

Calc (spreadsheet)

Impress (presentation)

Draw (vector graphics)

Base (database)

Math (formula editor)

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BOSS

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SCIM

Smart Common Input Method(SCIM) provides an user friendly

interface using which the input method can be changed.

How to use SCIM?

Open text editor(gedit) or any application.

Type control+space bar to invoke notification icon on task bar.

It will show toggle bar in all languages

Select language in which you want to type

Now you can start typing in the selected language

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Scanner

Plug the scanner to your PC

Choose Applications -> Graphics -> Xsane Image Scanning Program

The scanner will be detected and the images can be scanned now.

If your scanner drivers are not already present in BOSS GNU/Linux then you can download them from the link http://www.saneproject.org/sanemfgs.html and install the drivers. The steps for installation are mentioned in the software itself.

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Multimedia

Music Player

Banshee is the music player for Gnome. It can also connect to the Online Radio stations if you have the Internet connection. There can be more than one Radio station configured in this.

Importing Music

Click Music -> Import Music

Choose an import source

Click Import Music Source

Ripping Your Music

Insert the audio CD into the CD drive

Banshee automatically detects it and adds it as a playlist in the side menu.

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Multimedia

Click on the playlist

Confirm that detection is all correct

Press Import CD in the upper-right corner(where Burn CD usually)

The extracted songs will be in the Music library

Burning Your Music

Insert a blank CD into the CD drive

In Banshee's music library, highlight the songs you want to burn (press and hold ctrl and then click your mouse to select multiple tracks)

Click the Write CD button in the upper right hand corner

Banshee will eject your CD when complete, and a dialog box will pop informing you that the burn is complete. Click OK

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Multimedia

CD Player

The CD Player application enables you to play audio Compact Discs(CDs) on your computer.

Movie Player

Totem is the movie player for Gnome and Noatun is the movie player for KDE

Sound Recorder

This can be used to record the audio sounds.

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Burning CDs & DVDs

GnomeBaker(Gnome) and K3b(KDE) are the CD/DVD burning applications that come with BOSS 3.0

Features

Creating a data CD/DVD

Creating an audio CD

Copying a data CD/DVD

Copying an audio CD

Blanking CD-RW

Burning an ISO image

In addition K3b also supports multisession, Creation of Video CD/DVD

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GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) allows you to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify communications and data, as well as create and manage the keys needed for these tasks.

Seahorse provides a front end to many of the features of Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) and integrates with multiple components of the GNOME desktop.

To create keys choose Applications -> Accessories -> Password and Encryption Keys

Creating Keys

Choose Key > Create Key Pair

Select PGP Key and click “Continue”

Enter your full name, your email address and any additional information.

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Text Editor

Seahorse installs a plugin for gEdit that allows you to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify plain text.

To enable the GnuGP plugin for gEdit, choose Preferences from the Edit menu.

Go to the Plugins tab, select the Text Encryption plugin, and click OK.

Then you can select the text you want to encrypt, decrypt, or sign and choose the encryption option from Edit menu.

Once done, you can copy and paste your encrypted or signed text to other applications.

To decrypt open the file and choose Edit -> Decrypt/Verify

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File Manager

Menu Items for encryption can be found both under the Nautilus Edit menu and in the context menu when you right-click on a file or folder.

To use them, select the files or folders you want to encrypt and select Edit -> Encrypt.

GnuPG will create a new file with a .pgp extension for any files you encrypt.

Your original, unencrypted file will remain unencrypted.

To decrypt a file with a .pgp extension, right-click on it and select Open with Decrypt File.

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Gdesklets

Gdesklets – small applets that can be placed on the desktop

The applets placed on the desktop are meant to be quick ways for the user to retrieve information

Some of the gDesklets are:

* Clocks

* Calendars

* Quick Launcher

* Animated toolbars

* Desktop notes

* System monitors

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Internet Tools

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Ekiga

Ekiga - an open source VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME.

Using Ekiga we can perform

1. PC to PC communication

1.1 Text Based Communication

1.2 Voice Based Communication

2. PC to Phone communication

3. Phone to PC communication

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Chat Applications

Pidgin

Pidgin is an instant messaging program.

You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, SIMPLE, and Google Talk.

Xchat

XChat is an IRC chat program. Xchat is mainly used for technical chat.

It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible.

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Chat Applications

To start Xchat choose Applications -> Internet -> Xchat IRC

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Chat Applications

Joining a channel

By default BOSS Server will be connected to BOSSnrcfoss channel. If the channel is not specified by default a dialog will popup asking you enter the channel to join.

If you know the name of the channel, type the channel name e.g. #BOSSnrcfoss (IRC channels usually begin with a hash symbol), and click “OK”.

If you don't know the channel name, click “Retrieve Channel list...”, this will open a window and list all the possible channels on this network.

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Chat Applications

Once you've selected a channel, XChat should join it for you and you can start chatting by typing the queries in the text box at the bottom of the window.

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Onscreen Keyboard & Orca

Onscreen Keyboard

Onscreen Keyboard is an application that displays a floating keyboard on the computer screen.

Onscreen Keyboard is the other way which allows you to type in your native language and create your documentations, mails etc.

Start the Onscreen Keyboard through Applications > Accessories > OnScreen Keyboard

Select the language from, “Languages” menu.

open any of your favorite editor, and start typing

Accessibility Tools

Orca(The screen Reader) is an assistive technology for people with

visual impairments.

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Special Purpose Tools

BOSS Bulk Document Converter

This converter allows you to convert a group of documents of one format to other format like doc to pdf, doc to html etc.,

BOSS Presentation Tool

BOSS Presentation tool is a simple presentation program that displays slideshows of image files, PDF or PPT or PPS or ODP documents.

3D Desktop

Compiz-fusion is the 3D Desktop that comes with BOSS 3.0(tejas).

3DDesktop is an application for switching virtual desktops in a seamless 3dimensional manner on Linux.

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Customizing Application Names

Users new to BOSS might have previously used some other operating systems.

Some of the applications in BOSS are similar to that in the previously used OS but the name of the application differs.

Users may find some difficulty in remembering two names for the same application.

BOSS gives the users a feature to change the application name so that users can give their own name to the application.

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THANK YOU

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