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Re:Installing Red Star 3.0, North Korea's homegrown operatin... by tomkadwill on Sunday January 11, 2015 @03:29AM (#8869457)
Is it compulsory that all North Koreans use Red Star 3.0?
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Re:Installing Red Star 3.0, North Korea's homegrown operatin... by anonova on Sunday January 11, 2015 @04:55PM (#8871498)
The hosts of a VICE documentary were able to visit a computer lab [1] last year, and looking at the start button(?), it looks like an older version of Red Star OS.

[1]: http://youtu.be/IrCQh1usdzE?t=15m43s

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Re:Installing Red Star 3.0, North Korea's homegrown operatin... by blinkingled on Sunday January 11, 2015 @05:01AM (#8869575)
According to the CCC talk by a guy who went there to teach CS, most everyone uses WinXP - Red Star is used in industrial setting mostly.

If that's the case wonder why they went all the way to so meticulously clone OS X UI.

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Re:Installing Red Star 3.0, North Korea's homegrown operatin... by mikeash on Sunday January 11, 2015 @09:58AM (#8870119)
Perhaps the reason is similar to the (apocryphal) tale of how the Tu-4 was manufactured with bullet holes copied from a captured, battle-damaged B-29 because Stalin said to copy it exactly.
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Re:Installing Red Star 3.0, North Korea's homegrown operatin... by blinkingled on Sunday January 11, 2015 @12:27PM (#8870504)
That or they're planning to transition from XP to Red Star for everyone whenever it's 'ready' - which would be quite an ambitious plan!
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