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Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS

Posted by timothy on from the there-are-drawbacks-to-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Several newspapers have reported that DRDO (the defence R&D organization of the Indian military) is planning to create an OS. The need for this arose due to the cyber security concerns facing India and that all [conventional] operating systems are made outside India. About 50 professionals in Bangalore and New Delhi are expected to start work on this operating system." At least one of the linked articles says the new OS, though home-grown, would run Windows software.

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  1. Confusion by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

    WINE doesn't stand for "Wine is not a complete, Windows-compatible operating system sans the security vulnerabilities".

  2. Cost by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait for the poor bastards to try outsourcing development to India.

  3. The Wheel by Voulnet · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Wheel: It's tired of getting reinvented.

  4. Re:SHIVA by mfnickster · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I am become /dev/null, the destroyer of data."

    --
    "Slow down, Cowboy! It has been 3 years, 7 months and 26 days since you last successfully posted a comment."
  5. Re:I hope they name it CURRY by jfengel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only if they write it in Haskell.