Great… like we Linux users weren’t already stigmatized as IT communists:
Russian student Mikhail, who studies in the Kim Il-sung University and writes a blog from the Russian embassy in Pyongyang, has recently purchased the Red Star Operating System (OS) and tested it. Courtesy of Mikhail, RT gives you an opportunity to take glimpse at IT life of world’s most closed country.
The Red Star is a Linux-based OS developed by North Korean IT specialists last year. Readme file, which goes with the install disc, even gives a quote from Kim Jong-il about how important for DPRK is to have its own Linux-based operating system compatible with Korean traditions.
Compatible with Korean traditions, eh? Does that mean they’ve figured out how to get Linux to work with Active X?
Seriously, though, check out the Mikhail’s blog post on it here.
(HT to reader)
PS: Wonder why the commies went with KDE?
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They went with KDE because it’s from the same country as Marx without being decadently easy to use a la SUSE.
There is no stigmatization, you really are, and don’t try add that “IT” there. I wonder whether you are aware that Linus grew up under a communist father, who extolled the virtues of the Soviet Union in his journalism and was a member of the Central Committee of the Finnish Communist Party in the early 1980s. So there is no escape.
Robert, are you now, or have you ever been a user of the Linux operating system?
And here I thought that it was all just b/c KJI was afraid of those brigades of M$ lawyers…
@Setnaffa,
Good point. S. Korea and the US might keep the rice and the fuel oil coming, but if Bill comes to town, KJI better hide his wallet!
BTW, it’s interesting that we have a fix on it. Since no O/S can be completely secure, the US and other countries should have fun with this new standard when it comes to finding vulnerabilities the size of barn doors and then driving Malware tractors through em. It takes two to Tango, eh, Kimmie?
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