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China-Japan-Koreas
North KoreaÂ’s Red Star OS goes Mac
2014-02-04
Hat tip Daring Fireball, but poor Mr. Gruber won't likely approve of me and my politics, even if I do use a Mac :-)
Poor Microsoft. It seems North Korea doesnÂ’t like the traditional Windows-look anymore.

The latest version of the countryÂ’s home-grown operating system, Red Star Linux, has been restyled and ships with a desktop that closely resembles AppleÂ’s Mac OSX. The previous version was based on the popular KDE desktop that mimicked that of Windows 7.
Lots of screenshots at the link.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  northkoreatech.org is a real website? That has to be the most niche niche that ever was.
Posted by: Iblis   2014-02-04 16:24  

#4  I heard they also developed Angry Kims - levels consist of throwing family members at starved pigs.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-02-04 14:46  

#3  e x p e r i m e n t e d

?Out of caffeine error...

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-02-04 10:38  

#2  I like the red star where the apple ordinarily is in the menu bar. Comrade Kim got an extra bowl of tree bark for that touch...
Posted by: Steve White   2014-02-04 10:24  

#1  Since it's just rebadged linux all they're doing is changing from one already available theme (possibly slightly modified) to another (also possibly slightly modified). It's just a skin, it can be swapped out.

I've experiemnted with customizing live-cd's myself, I don't call it a new OS. They do.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-02-04 09:24  

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