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blinkingled
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Installing Red Star 3.0, North Korea's homegrown o...
According to the CCC talk by a guy who went there to teach CS, most everyone uses WinXP - Red Star is used in industrial setting mostly.
If that's the case wonder why they went all the way to so meticulously clone OS X UI.
mikeash
on Jan 11, 2015
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Perhaps the reason is similar to the (apocryphal) tale of how the Tu-4 was manufactured with bullet holes copied from a captured, battle-damaged B-29 because Stalin said to copy it exactly.
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That or they're planning to transition from XP to Red Star for everyone whenever it's 'ready' - which would be quite an ambitious plan!
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If that's the case wonder why they went all the way to so meticulously clone OS X UI.