{"id":4054,"date":"2023-01-25T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T05:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4054"},"modified":"2025-03-26T21:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:50:50","slug":"what-is-bharos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-bharos\/","title":{"rendered":"What is BharOS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Key Features of BharOS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BharOS is a <strong>mobile operating system<\/strong> similar to Android or iOS; it is based on an AOSP (Android Open Source Project) operating system and does not use any Google apps or services.<\/li>\n<li>It would support <strong>Native Over The Air (NOTA)<\/strong> updates as well as <strong>No Default Apps<\/strong> (NDA).<\/li>\n<li>It has a minimalistic home screen with the Indian flag, a list of app categories, and a selection of apps that have passed the OS&#8217;s trust and security standards.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0It will employ the <strong>Private App Store Services (PASS)<\/strong> system to examine and curate apps that are safe for users.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0These systems enable smartphone users to interact with their devices and access their features while also ensuring their safety.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Current status<\/strong>: The current version of BharOS includes third-party apps such as DuckDuckGo and Signal by default.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is Native Over The Air (NOTA)?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Security updates and bug fixes will be automatically installed rather than users having to check for updates and implement them on their own<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is the No Default Apps<\/strong> <strong>setting?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Users do not have to keep or use pre-installed apps in this mobile operating system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an operating system?<\/h3>\n<p>An operating system (OS) is the program that, after being initially loaded into the computer by a boot program, manages all of the other application programs in a computer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/explained-bharos-software-how-different-from-google-android-os-iit-madras\/article66423362.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Explained | What is BharOS software and how different is it from Google\u2019s Android OS?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BharOS is a mobile operating system similar to Android or iOS and is based on Android Open Source Project OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}