The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Electronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot) for research in open source software and e-governance.

The scope of this strategic alliance between C-DAC and Elcot is to deploy BOSS Linux across the state in all government departments for their productivity application and e-governance applications, large scale promotional activities in the areas of open source software, e-governance and setting up a BOSS Linux support centre at the Elcot campus.

BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) is a GNU / Linux distribution developed by  C-DAC, Chennai is a deliverable of national resource centre for free / open source software (NRCFOSS) in order to benefit the use of free / open source software throughout India.

It has enhanced desktop environment integrating Indian language support and other packages that are relevant for use in the Indian government domain.

BOSS is easier for windows user to perform in GNU / Linux platform, which gives outstanding features like bulk document converter, migration tool to migrate into FOSS from other proprietary operating systems, presentation tool to make presentations by moulding Graphics and Text and features like plug and play.

BOSS provides support for the educational domains and server / enterprise editions.