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Re:Indian OS by prakashk on Friday October 15, 2010 @10:01AM (#1794527)
I wish everyone realizes what a joke this publicity-seeking exercise of a politician/bureacrat is (just as the so-called $10 laptop was). Discussing the technical merits or demerits of this whole absurdity would only give it more legitimacy.

Instead, I would humbly point you to http://greatbong.net/2010/10/14/the-grand-secret-os/, which recognizes this for what it actually is. At least you can have some fun talking about it.

Re:Indian OS by fauigerzigerk on Friday October 15, 2010 @11:07AM (#1794768)
That's brilliant :-) This kind of sharp and humorous form of criticism makes me very confident that India has a great future.
Re:Indian OS by kranner on Friday October 15, 2010 @10:05AM (#1794539)
Lovely, but I doubt a non-Indian will get all those in-jokes.
Re:Indian OS by aniket_ray on Friday October 15, 2010 @11:19AM (#1794817)
Helping people out with the jokes.

G@ND = expletive for ass(the body part).

Block Development Officer - Officer in charge of administering a block (a block in turn is a small administrative area typically a few villages).

SC - Scheduled Castes

ST - Scheduled Tribes

OBC - Other Backward Classes

SC, ST, OBC are different categorization of the castes.

Indian institutions (govt. jobs, colleges etc) have to offer atleast 49.5% seats to people belonging to these sections. This is kind of an affirmative action. This affirmative action is based on the archaic caste system and not on the something tangible like income. So quite often the rich people of these castes end up reaping the benefits. Because of this reason most of the intellectuals of India oppose such an affirmative action. Politicians still do it, because its a easy way to get votes.

Class IV employees - Employees under a particular government pay grade. The lowest grade in government pay scale. People in this grade form unions and assert their labour rights through frequent strikes.

Babus - may refer to either bureaucrats or the clerical staff in their office. Both are known to be admirers of red tape and corruption.

Paan - piper betel leaf based mouth freshener. Hard to explain so refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paan

Re:Indian OS by solutionyogi on Friday October 15, 2010 @08:37PM (#1796920)
Those translations are handy but I think you kill the joke if you have to explain it. You have to know and have experienced the 'babu-culture' to appreciate the article, there's no way around it.
Re:Indian OS by arjn on Friday October 15, 2010 @07:50PM (#1796829)
I wouldn't call paan a mouth freshner. I think its more like a stimulant.
Re:Indian OS by known on Friday October 15, 2010 @12:27PM (#1795149)
There are 17,000 cults aka castes in India. http://goo.gl/CNyp

With less than 1% marriages inter-caste, they literally hate each other.

Since Economic mobility != Social mobility it is better for India to give autonomy to FC/BC/SC/ST/Minority regions with a single passport and currency across these regions.

Re:Indian OS by thingie on Friday October 15, 2010 @10:51AM (#1794694)
Some of them are quite funny at their own. Like this one.

3. The default state of processes is “sleep” which is where they are found 95% of the time.

It's obviously meant as a joke, but if you think about it, your real processes in your real OS are (on average) going to spend even more time sleeping, and it's exactly what you want.

Re:Indian OS by drtse4 on Friday October 15, 2010 @10:13AM (#1794561)
Don't worry, that's crystal clear, i didn't post the original link above just for that reason, an nonsensical/hilarious announcement.

But that announcement made me remember of that security researcher sent to jail for his analysis of the voting machine last month or so, who knows how that ended...

Re:Indian OS by SwaroopH on Friday October 15, 2010 @01:21PM (#1795357)
This doesn't even deserve the jokes. India government at it's pathetic best.
Re:Indian OS by aufreak3 on Friday October 15, 2010 @01:11PM (#1795319)
What a great writeup! I LOL-ed at the code name - "GAND-OS" ... can't stop laughing! :D

When I read the original Inquirer post, I immediately checked the date just to make sure this isn't some old April 1st joke.

Re:Indian OS by pers3us on Friday October 15, 2010 @10:52AM (#1794700)
I just can't stop laughing.