For those lucky enough to have computers in North Korea, their official operating system created by the government is about to get a sleek new update. Although it wasn’t announced in a flashy keynote, Red Star OS’s new look will have a lot of similarities to Apple’s Mac OS X. The revamp is part of the country’s doctrine that emphasizes “self-reliance,” except that Red Star OS is based on crowd-sourced Linux. Red Star OS has been on the public radar since 2010 when a Russian student revealed that the extremely secretive country invented its own software.
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