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North Korea's Own OS, Red Star
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."
Red Star cannot be called modest in terns if system requirements. You will need at least a Pentium III 800 Mhz with 256 Mb RAM and astounding 3Gb hard drive space!
Oh noes! Not a PIII 800 mhz and all of 256 megs of RAM!!! zOMG SUCH HUGE REQUIREMENTS!! Oh and 3 whole gigs of HD space? Golly how will I ever be able to fit that even on my ancient 80 gig hard drive that just sits collecting dust!
Teehee! Their OS is clearly broken, since all the text is unreadable!
notice how all the countries that switch are very socialist and the government controls enterprise with an iron fist? it's because switching to linux is a huge expense that doesn't actually make sense unless you can force people to work for peanuts.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
They are NOT in violation of the GPL. North Korea is a sovereign nation that does not have the same copyright laws. How can it violate laws it does not have?
There are many countries in the world that violate the laws of others countries. The US is pretty hot on that list with its state killings, oops executions. It is against several international agreements to kill children, the US kills children, but hasn't agreed to these agreements.
International politics are often hard to understand because people are unable to think beyond their own country. No, not everyone in England has infinity points on their driving license because they drive on the wrong side of the road. In England, you get points for driving on the right side of the road. It is their law that counts, not yours.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
And like all asian cars, they're a rip off of someone else's design anyway. Do you think Lexus and Infiniti are really any different?
Asian people have IP theft in their blood. You can see it in their squinty eyes.