North Korea's Own OS, Red Star 316
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."
Yes! (Score:1, Funny)
If you're a true lover of freedom, this distro is just for you!
2010: (Score:5, Funny)
The year of the linux desktop has finally come, to North Korea.
The unanswered question... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:...can't...stop...myself... (Score:5, Funny)
In Democratic People's Republic of Korea, computer back door removes you!
Re:So, when (Score:5, Funny)
I might have had something to say but... (Score:5, Funny)
The article in its entirety:
Russian student back from North Korea had purchased a $5 OS disc and a $10 application disc. Based on Linux, looks like Korean version of Windows.
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crickets
Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
The Red Star is based on Linux
*ducks*
Glorious Leader has truly given us a blessing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A firewall is the least of the problems (Score:5, Funny)
Most of North Korea doesn't even have electricity.
Lies! All North Korean citizens have personal fusion reactors to power Dear Leader's triumph over Western aggressors.
Re:Ironic (Score:5, Funny)
Well, the obvious joke would be... "Communist country, communist OS."
Sorry. Couldn't resist. Some jokes are just too easy.
Re:Ironic (Score:5, Funny)
Well, they both fell for the propaganda that Free Software is communist.
Interesting... (Score:2, Funny)
Do they have the goofy M$ search assistant dog?
Just curious there...
--Stak
Re:A firewall is the least of the problems (Score:4, Funny)
Without electricity they could use the firewall to keep warm in the winter.
It's based in GNU Hurd . . . (Score:4, Funny)
. . . but the only app is Duke Nukem Forever.
Re:Glorious Leader has truly given us a blessing (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.
Re:So, when (Score:3, Funny)
can we start expecting contributions to the kernel?
Sorry comrade, it is now called "the Colonel".
Born on a rainbow star (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.
Re:2010: (Score:5, Funny)
In Korea, only old people use Windows. Then they get arrested for promoting capitalism.
Re:2010: (Score:5, Funny)
Shouldn't it be GNU/Red Star Linux?
Re:The unanswered question... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So, when (Score:5, Funny)
I hear the patches will be real killers.
Re:2010: (Score:4, Funny)
As long as there is a grownup OS underneath does it really matter?
Re:2010: (Score:5, Funny)
Communism. My idea!
Re:The unanswered question... (Score:4, Funny)
It's analog. Since they don't have electricity [flickr.com], the computer in question is hydraulic, with power provided by the operator via pedals. ~
Re:I prefer brown starfish (Score:1, Funny)
Oh, please - a year isn't that long a time.
Re:Dissent (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So, when (Score:3, Funny)
Judging by what the system looks like, he's under direct command of General Protection Fault.
And best of all.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A firewall is the least of the problems (Score:5, Funny)
A simple "yes" would have been fine.
Re:Yes! (Score:4, Funny)
Personally I wonder if the Blue Screen of Death is replaced with a Red Screen of Dissention.
No, it's the Red Screen of Death. This is North Korea, after all. "Take that, Hans Brix!"
Re:2010: (Score:5, Funny)
All 10 cars, yes.
Re:Dissent (Score:3, Funny)
I tried clicking your link and all I got was this: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whoosh
Re:Yes! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yes! (Score:2, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Penguin [wikipedia.org]