Oriya can be added to the list of BOSS ( Bharat Operating System Solutions), if adequate initiatives are taken especially by the people in Orissa. BOSS has been developed by C- DAC, as part of Government of India's initiative towards equipping common people with the benefits of computer technology as a free and open source operating system," said senior scientist of C- DAC , Mumbai Alka S Irani at a national seminar and BOSS workshop towards Language Literate Computers 'LLC 2008' here on Tuesday.
Currently BOSS can process nine Indian languages- Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu in various text editors such as gedit, Open-Office, Abi-Word, Yudit. Move is on to chalk out an action plan for Oriya and to create special interest groups and structures for fulfilling the dream of "language literate computers", added Irani. Irani further said that information and knowledge are considered to be the key factors for development of a society.Unfortunately, only a tiny portion of Indian population is truly informed and knowledgeable.Language Technology, as a key component in human-computer interfaces, can increase the chances for non-technical people to quickly and successfully interact with computers. Under this backdrop BOSS has been developed by C-DAC.
BOSS is a GNU/Linux distribution developed by C-DAC with support from NRCFOSS at Chennai for enhancing the use of Free or Open Source Software in the country. IIMT chairman Srikanta Patnaik said that C-DAC is now showing more interest for Oriya language and accordingly it has identified IIMT as the Centre for Language Technology.
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