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Overview of the North Korean distribution of Red Star 3.0. Server version

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Overview of the North Korean distribution of Red Star 3.0. Server version

    Yesterday, an anonymous user of ThePirateBay posted a distribution of North Korean production - Red Star 3.0. Earlier versions of this distribution were available earlier, but this version is relatively recent, dated 12/12/2013.

    The torrent file contains the distress rss3_32_key_gui_20131212.iso (817M), the cracked boot.iso (37M) bootloader and readme.txt.

    At first I tried to run the distribution in my favorite QEMU, however, for some reason, the installer did not proceed to the copy process files, so I had to use VirtualBox.

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    Yes, you understood correctly, this is a serial number request. You need to run the installer via boot.iso, it contains a cracked loader that does not check the serial number.

    Press “Enter” and go to the network settings:
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    In business! This is not a joke to you! North Korea is not far behind modern technology - IPv6 out of the box.

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    We

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    get the IP address ... You need to enter the root password. Password must contain a capital letter, number and special character.

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    Oooh ...

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    Partitioning a disk. I was afraid of manual markup and used automatic (the highest point). Used LVM.

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    On the next screen, we are prompted to select the packages that will be installed. Among them are Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Java and others.

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    If we go into the "GUI" menu, we will be given a choice: KDE, QT3 and QT4. I do not quite understand what exactly QT3 and QT4 give, so I chose KDE.

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    If you select the last two items (antivirus and virtualization tool) in the previous menu, then you can install the GUI for them.

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    The process has begun ...

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    We boot ... it loads very quickly, by the way, faster than typical distributions.

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    Login window. We drive in our root user and password.

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    Here is the desktop. There are not many desktop applications: a browser (fork of firefox 10), a PDF reader, a picture viewer, a GUI for QEMU and an antivirus tuner.

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    Browser.

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    GUI to QEMU.

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    Supports both Linux

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    and Windows.

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    Antivirus Customizer He wants an administrator password from me, which I don’t know. ROOT password is not suitable. The error message is exactly the same: "Enter the administrator password."

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    Input Pad. Opens in the "Noble names" section, the first line says: "Kim Il Sung Kim Jong Il Kim Jong Eun"

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    A list of running processes.

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    Listened ports.

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    yum.conf. Nothing unusual.

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    Installed sachets.

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    Boring wallpapers.

    Somehow pretty boring, I thought a lot ... that would be much better. But very boring, just very boring. I thought it would be much better. How many times did the OS install! It was much better, but this time it somehow didn’t work off-axis ... Firstly, there are few applications, the OS is not very ...

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