North Korea's Red Star Linux OS: Made in Apple's Image?

Posted by Mcusanelli on Jan 6, 2015 7:03 PM CST
The VAR Guy; By Chris Tozzi
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Red Star OS, the open source operating system from North Korea that is based on Linux and the KDE desktop environment, has started looking more like Apple's OS X.

Most of the recent headlines involving North Korea and computers have centered on whether the former was behind attacks against Sony. Here's another fact about technology in North Korea that has been subject to less attention: The country has its own, home-grown Linux distribution, called Red Star OS, which happens to look a lot like Apple's OS X.

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