Hands on with North Korea’s homegrown operating system, Red Star
Jan08
North Korea has its own national desktop operating system and the very latest version, called Red Star 3.0, has leaked online, giving us a rare glimpse into what happens when you build something like an entire operating system in isolation. Red Star 2.0 resembled Windows, but this new version has a whole new inspiration: Apple. Red Star booting North Korea Tech says that Red Star was developed by the Korea Computer Center in Pyongyang and is based on Linux, which can be openly modified. We saw Red Star 3.0 for the first time last year when Will Scott, an American graduate who taught Computer…
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