West Bengal (WB) government's IT department is choosing open source operating systems for its ambitious e-Governance programme in the state.Recently, the state has selected to install Lenovo PCs loaded with Red Hat Linux for an e-Governance programme involving 277 panchayats in Burdwan district.The IT department has set up a computing center which operates exclusively on open source software. Many leading open source software vendors like Sun, IBM and Red Hat have already expressed their willingness to participate.