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Union Minister for Communications, Electronics and Information Technology and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Union Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on January 24 tested ‘BharOS’, an indigenous operating system developed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT).
BharOS is based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP), making it a forked version of Android sans Google and other first-party and third-party apps. No default apps and Private App Store Services (PASS) are among the salient features detailed by IIT Madras about the BharOS.
No default apps essentially means the control rests with users to install apps of choice. With no default apps, users would have the choice to install and use only the apps they trust and want to use.
