Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS

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.

I hope they name it CURRY

[PatPending]

I hope they name it CURRY

Confusion

[DoofusOfDeath]

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

Cost

[DoofusOfDeath]

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

The Wheel

[Voulnet]

The Wheel: It's tired of getting reinvented.

I think Novell may have something to say...

[E-Sabbath]

They already own DRDOS.

Re:SHIVA

[mfnickster]

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

Re:I hope they name it CURRY

[jfengel]

Only if they write it in Haskell [wikipedia.org].

Tech Support

[binaryseraph]

Wonder if they will outsource the tech support to the U.S. Oh, Irony.

Microkernel to the rescue!

[VincenzoRomano]

I hope the new OS will be a microkernel one, like L4Ka [l4ka.org] (or L4 [l4hq.com] in general) or Minix [minix3.org].

Re:Confusion

[interkin3tic]

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

No, but WINACWCOSSTSV sure does.

Re:"Trusting trust" attack can be countered using

[Anonymous Coward]

You should really learn how to use the quote tag.

Re:Mod parent up.

[RichiH]

Next Tuesday, MS will break the record for patches in one day. Before the recent bzip2 DoS hole, I don't even know _what_ I patched last.

Your obscurity argument would hold more water if most *NIX would not dominate the server hosting as much as it does. And those machines tend to be unfiltered while Windows machines tend to be behind NAT/a firewall.

And finally, even _if_ the obscurity argument was valid (I happen to think it's not, feel free to disagree), there is no way to make *NIX less obscure just to prove your point.

So, for all intents and purposes, as of right now, *NIX is more secure.