Re:Notes on Red Star OS 3.0
by unbudgingprawn on Thursday January 08, 2015 @12:24PM
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One of the comments in the article had a link to the wallpapers
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=706209438639911...
Imgur album if you just want to look at them without downloading the .zip: https://imgur.com/a/OU4y6
Some of those are surreal. Is it me, or did they photoshop farm machinery into their fields?
They're all photo-illustrations or outright painting/drawings.
Re:Notes on Red Star OS 3.0
by yellowapple on Thursday January 08, 2015 @01:26PM
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Huh; according to that article, the thing ships with Windows 3.0. Guess the legacy software's still gotta work.
Re:Notes on Red Star OS 3.0
by slipstream- on Thursday January 08, 2015 @01:52PM
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It's not Windows 3.0. It's version 3.0 of a wine wrapper.
Re:Notes on Red Star OS 3.0
by yellowapple on Thursday January 08, 2015 @03:55PM
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Ah, I see. Only slightly less interesting, then :)
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/you-can-now-install-the-nor...
My first thought: I'd want to install it just to get the wallpapers. Maybe some intrepid soul will do that and release the wallpapers as a separate distribution.
The Vice article has a few more contextual details, such as how Red Star was rarely distributed for personal use, and that Windows 7 was still popular among students according to the American teacher who first spotted Red Star.