Comments on: Red Star OS: Linux distro from North Korea

By: roderick

roderick — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:22:29 +0000

They want to continuously improve in everything without needing the hand of other countries, that’s something anyone should cheer on. And that’s why they choose Linux.

Did you know that North Korean developers won the third Computer Go Competition UED Cup in 2009? Weren’t them in “old times”? Hint!

At least in the social part of the thing, they’re far advanced than our sick individualist and consumerist society.

By: roderick

roderick — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:10:33 +0000

Catchy phrase, but not smart. Their government’s ideology is not fascism or anything of this kind, it’s called Juche. Better read some things by Kim Il Sung before saying they’re fascist. We have to study before teaching, right? :p

They also use Windows Vista. It’s not a modern OS? Yes, it is! Gotcha. :p

By: roderick

roderick — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:04:03 +0000

If “they do not have a choice they use what the government tells them what to use or they end up being in the gulag (concentration camp)” — what’s not equivalent to GULAG because it’s an acronym for the correctional labor prison system that existed in Russia, and there’s no exact, scientific, undeniable proof that the same thing exists in NK, or concentration camps – just propaganda, but they’re not proof for anything, so let’s talk about thinks we KNOW are real — there wouldn’t even exist a North Korean Linux distro!

People there still want Windows (they primarily use XP and Vista) because Red Star OS is not better than those Windows versions yet – this is clear to anybody who used it. This is not because they use KDE 3 environment; about that… Maybe they couldn’t get more powerful computer equipment yet, capable of running KDE 4 without lags. That’s more logical than saying s#!t about them just because they use an older version of a GUI. Hey, there are people in your countries using Fluxbox and other “shit” GUIs because they can’t afford a good PC and you’re not complaining on that! What’s more, they have the same problems found in any other country related to migrations to Linux – people always used Windows, and many doesn’t want to change this habit.

Simple like this. Nothing like evil and demoniac Korean politicians forcing people to use this or that OS. Common sense sucks.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:19:09 +0000

KDE 3.0! And this is all hooked up to a Vax 6000 right? Goes to show that fascism doesn’t have a prayer in modern times.

By: Tensigh

Tensigh — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:44:52 +0000

You have to do SOMETHING in lieu of eating!

Seriously, I look forward to when the dictator regimes are overthrown, Korea is united and freedom comes to NK.

By: bashar hassona

bashar hassona — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:32:58 +0000

please , i want to download it <<<>>>

By: kagbalete

kagbalete — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:32:04 +0000

people are allowed to use the internet in north korea??? they are not even allowed to watch anything from the west and all programs from the south are jammed; from the looks of it these os was developed for the use of the government so that they do not have to rely on microsoft because they think that the microsoft os have hidden backdoors that will allow the american devils hack into their systems…… as for this os not being the people's favorite, duh, they do not have a choice they use what the government tells them what to use or they end up being in the gulag (concentration camp)

By: Sinok

Sinok — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:40:59 +0000

The thing is just a linux running with a localized & rebranded KDE 3 desktop environement (and by the way KDE 4 was released two years ago).

Nothing really new there