Due to increasing concerns over cyberattacks and malware, India’s Defence Ministry has decided to replace Microsoft’s OS with a locally made Ubuntu fork named Maya (meaning ‘deception’ in Sanskrit). Maya will have an interface similar to Windows to ease the transition, and an end-point detection and protection system called Chakravyuh. The three armed services are also expected to follow suit, with the Navy already having cleared the OS for deployment.
The Indian government has long had a policy to transfer all government systems to open-source software, with the Railways and the Bombay Stock Exchange having switched to Red Hat and educational institutions using distributions such as Debian-based BOSS and Ubuntu-based KITE.
I wonder if a government can actually do better at security. Not that corporations are amazing and infallible, but it isn’t like governments are known for creating the best software systems either.
I don’t think so. One of the groups actively exploiting vulnerabilities are governments. You could add a backdoor only you know. I don’t think anything is better for security that popular FOSS distros/OS-es
You could add a backdoor only you know.
Anyone determined will find the backdoor with enough determination, even in the dark.
This is incredible news. Windows 11 is a fucking travesty filled with bloatware, I recently had to reinstall windows due to a driver corrupting my nvme and switched back to windows 10 and my god the performance boost was actually insane. I run dual boot Ubuntu on my main laptop, and straight Ubuntu on my server host laptop and my work desktop.
I don’t like Windows either, but my experience with 11 was not as bad. I ran it on now dead 16 year old laptop (Compal FL90). It worked better than Windows 10, although it’s possible that it was old enough to not support some background services. I also disabled BITS and SuperFetch which gave it a huge boost.
But compared to Linux Mint 20.3, Windows 8.1 or the officially supported Windows XP, that was a snail.
This is the year of Linux military systems
Legendary India
An Ubuntu fork meant to ease transfer from Windows? Sounds like they are making their own flavor of Linux Mint.
Maya is a cool name to use too, but I associate it with the 3D graphics software first.
