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North Korea's Own OS, Red Star

Posted by timothy on from the linux-is-sometimes-for-communists dept.

klaasb writes "North Korea's self-developed computer operating system, named 'Red Star,' was brought to light for the first time by a Russian satellite broadcaster yesterday. North Korea's top IT experts began developing the Red Star in 2006, but its composition and operation mechanisms were unknown until the internet version of the Russia Today TV program featured the system, citing the blog of a Russian student who goes to the Kim Il-sung University in Pyongyang."

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  1. 2010: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The year of the linux desktop has finally come, to North Korea.

    1. Re:2010: by aztektum · · Score: 5, Funny

      Shouldn't it be GNU/Red Star Linux?

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  2. The unanswered question... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that a 2-bit or 8-bit operating system?

    1. Re:The unanswered question... by absurdist · · Score: 5, Funny

      An 8-bit operating system for a 2-bit country?

  3. Re:So, when by Michael+Kristopeit · · Score: 5, Funny

    ICBM

  4. I might have had something to say but... by maeka · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article in its entirety:
    Russian student back from North Korea had purchased a $5 OS disc and a $10 application disc. Based on Linux, looks like Korean version of Windows.

    Nothing else.

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    crickets

  5. Glorious Leader has truly given us a blessing by Kyru · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm surprised there isn't a press release telling us Kim Jong-Il programmed the majority of the OS himself in his spare time, it is the type of thing the Glorious Leader usually does.

    1. Re:Glorious Leader has truly given us a blessing by damn_registrars · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm surprised there isn't a press release telling us Kim Jong-Il programmed the majority of the OS himself in his spare time, it is the type of thing the Glorious Leader usually does.

      Only the majority? You don't seem to know Kim Jong-Il very well. Considering he has his people tell us he is a world-record golfer, an avid fighter pilot (in spite of being afraid of flying), and capable of memorizing entire phone books, they wouldn't stop at majority. They would tell us that he gloriously wrote the entire Linux kernel, which he then selflessly shared with Linus Torvalds.

      And then they would go back a step further and say that he is also the original author of Unix itself. By the end of the week he would also be the father of the transistor and semiconductor.

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  6. Re:Yes! by Fluffeh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally I wonder if the Blue Screen of Death is replaced with a Red Screen of Dissention.

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  7. Re:Ironic by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, they both fell for the propaganda that Free Software is communist.

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  8. Born on a rainbow star by e2d2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Falling from the heavens like a rainbow star, the operating system appeared as a spirit of the people, willing itself into being to fight the evil west and spread true communist freedom to all people.

  9. Re:So, when by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hear the patches will be real killers.

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