National Operating System for Bangladesh Md. Shamsur Rahim, Ehtesham Choudhury Student, MScCS American International University- Bangladesh Submitted to: এএএএএ এএ এএএএএএএএ(এ এএ এএ) এএএএএএএএএ
1. Md. Shamsur Rahim, Ehtesham Choudhury Student, MScCS
American International University- Bangladesh Submitted to: (
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2. Introduction: World has become Global Village due to the
Technological advancement. But this advancement comes with some
trade offs. At present, Countries dont get involved in Physical
Warfare rather they get involved in Cyber Warfare. Recent
Statistics shows that, Hacktivism has increased by 35% in 2015 than
previous years. Vulnerability in Operating System is one of the
reasons for being attacked.
3. Problems with Existing Systems Digital Bangladesh is not
anymore the political manifesto of a single party as it has become
the dream of 16 million people of Bangladesh. The usage of
Computers in every sector is the key to digitalization. No Computer
can perform any task without Operating System. It is a software
that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides
common services for computer programs. Although with the advantage
of technology, now-a-days lots of Software are being developed by
the talented programmers of our country, but still we havent worked
to develop our own operating Systems. Countries like China, Iran,
Russia have started to build their own Operating Systems.
4. Problems with Existing Systems Cont. In case of Operating
System, we have only three choices: 1. Windows Operating Systems 2.
Open Source Operating Systems 3. Mac OS We can categorize Windows
& Mac OS as Proprietary OS. Windows operating systems are the
most widely used OS in our country. In the following Slide, we have
described the pros and cons of Proprietary OS and Open Source
OS.
5. Pros and Cons of Windows OS: Pros: Easy to use Service,
support & maintenance provided by vendor. For any kind of
program bugs, vendors take the liability. Cons: Costly Vulnerable
to Security threats like Viruses, Malware etc. Modification cannot
do by the user. Redistribute is not allowed. Lock-in to a single
vendor Not fully supported Bangla Language.
6. Pros and Cons of Open Source OS: Pros: Free of Cost.
Modification is possible. Redistribution is possible. More secured.
Cons: Very poor User Interface, Difficult for users to use. For
Service and Support, have to rely on online community users and
developers to deliver support via forums and blogs No one is liable
for any kind of Loss. Not fully supported Bangla Language.
7. How Bangladesh Can be benefited by having her own Operating
System: As we see, both the Proprietary and Open Source OS has some
major disadvantages. Having/Starting to develop a own OS,
Bangladesh will be: Worlds 4th Country to take this initiative,
which will indicate our progress towards digitalization. Able to
reduce cost by millions of dollars by stopping importing
Proprietary Software. Able to modify and customize according to
Peoples needs. Stimulated the local software industry.
8. Why Its the right time to have our own OS? To secure our
National Data Center. Approval of strong law against Software
Piracy [1] As most of the uses of our country uses pirated
software. TIFCA Enforcement of Copyright Law With the rate of
digitalization, the risk of being hacked is also increasing day by
day. As 40% of our total population illiterate about English so an
Operating System in Bangla will boost to speed of Digital
Bangladesh.
9. Our Proposal: Our proposal is develop our own Operating
System. In our proposed system, we will use Linux kernel. Security
will be ensured. The kernel will be modified and tested to support
our peoples requirements. The User Interface will be such friendly
so that everyone can use easily.