Russian schoolboy created "a new OS"
Ural schoolboy, Denis Popov, created an alternative to Windows OS. Now schools of Nizhny Tagil are willing to install it on their computers. Expert and user community scarified a 16-year-old boy’s work.
Denis Popov created Bolgenos OS (“Bolgen” – a fire ball, “os” – operational system, informs LifeNews) during his extra-curricular information science lessons. The system is made on Ubuntu Linux, takes only 1.7 GB of space after installation, has got a nice interface, easy to use, meant for simple office applications, includes Free Pascal Compiler for academic competitions on programming. Denis also claims, that OS speeds up the Internet browsing.
Popov was criticized on forums where he shared his thoughts about Bolgenos. Even experienced users didn’t understand the reason of the rush about this invention.
Nevertheless, next year Windows license will expire in all schools of Nizhny Tagil. And local Office of Education is planning to save money by installing the Bolgenos on schools’ computers. Moreover, they won’t have to pay anyone for it.
Update June 10, 2010 at 15.10: “Telekon” company, that one of the first showed the report about the young inventor from Nizhny Tagil, made a disclaimer. OS Bolgenos was Popov’s science term work at school, and no one was going to install it on school computers. Particularly, the problem is he used some well-known open source code for his programm, so he had no copyrights for it.