Patent filed for new OS
Drawing inspiration from the dream of former President APJ Abdul Kalam to make India self-reliant in the field of science and technology, three computer science engineering students of Chandigarh University, Gharaun, have put their heads together to develop country’s own operating system which offers compatibility as well as data security to its users.
Adarsh Chauhan, Anmol Puri and Puspraj Jaswal formed a core programming team that began working on the Kernel of the Operating System. “It’s been decades since the world has been using Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh as OS on all the types of desktops, servers, laptops or mobiles. But these operating systems offer no freedom in terms of compatibility, portability to users as they have to purchase the license of each and every application you want to use on them which puts extra burden on the user who has already invested money to buy an operating system”, said Adarsh Chauhan, main designer of the team.
“It took us about two years to bring out the first beta version of our operating system Elementary Puzzles and now it is ready to be commercially rolled out in market as we have tested it at different locations for performance”, adds Anmol Puri.
Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS) was the first indigenous OS developed by C-DAC did not match the services and utilities offered by licensed OS such as Microsoft or Macintosh, but Elementary Puzzles, which is Linux-based GUI (Graphical Operating System) offers safety and security features which match the platforms that are currently being used by US Defence Forces or Bank of China, which are considered to be the most secured platforms in the world.
Elementary Puzzles comes with more advanced memory management, built-in compatibility feature which allows it to be run on any 32 bit or 64 bit microsystem and offers highest level of encryption-based security to the user data, said Puspraj Jaswal, one of the team member who has worked on the security aspect of the OS.
The newly developed OS is easy to switch interfaces without doing aby installations as there are utilities like GNOME & KDE that help in bypassing these changes.
The team has already filed patent for the registration of the product and are planning to file application for International License next month for the commercialisation of the product, added Adarsh Chauhan. — TNS
