January 31, 2014 at 08:09North Korean Red Star OS Goes to Macs
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Poor Microsoft. It seems that North Korea no longer likes the look of a la traditional Windows. The latest version of the domestic (for North Korea - approx. Translator) operating system, Red Star Linux, was restyled and comes with a new desktop, which is very similar to Apple Mac OS X. The
previous version was based on the popular KDE, which simulated Windows 7. Red Star Linux was developed by the Korea Computer Center (KCC), a major development center in Pyongyang, and is based on Linux, an open source operating system originally developed by Linus Torvalds. This OS has been developed for about 10 years and is based on Red Hat Linux.
Red Star first became available outside of North Korea around 2010, when a Russian university student named after Kim Il Sung University (Kim Il Sung University) published it on the Internet.
Now thanks to Will Scott, an American scientist who lectured at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology at the end of 2013, we can see version 3.0. Probably this version was released a year earlier. Scott said that he acquired the software from the KKC retailer in southern Pyongyang and did not make any changes to it. This is what North Koreans can see when the software is installed.
First of all, a few screenshots when the OS is installed and starts.
If you use a poppy, then some frames will seem a little familiar to you. Here is the choice of time zone and desktop picture:
And here is the file manager:
But the email client, terminal and applications for productive work look like this:
Like the previous version of Red Star, Wine is included in the latest version 3.0. This package allows you to run Windows applications in a Linux environment.
previous version was based on the popular KDE, which simulated Windows 7. Red Star Linux was developed by the Korea Computer Center (KCC), a major development center in Pyongyang, and is based on Linux, an open source operating system originally developed by Linus Torvalds. This OS has been developed for about 10 years and is based on Red Hat Linux.
Red Star first became available outside of North Korea around 2010, when a Russian university student named after Kim Il Sung University (Kim Il Sung University) published it on the Internet.
Here's what version 2.0 looked like
Now thanks to Will Scott, an American scientist who lectured at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology at the end of 2013, we can see version 3.0. Probably this version was released a year earlier. Scott said that he acquired the software from the KKC retailer in southern Pyongyang and did not make any changes to it. This is what North Koreans can see when the software is installed.
First of all, a few screenshots when the OS is installed and starts.
If you use a poppy, then some frames will seem a little familiar to you. Here is the choice of time zone and desktop picture:
And here is the file manager:
But the email client, terminal and applications for productive work look like this:
Like the previous version of Red Star, Wine is included in the latest version 3.0. This package allows you to run Windows applications in a Linux environment.