North Korea has upgraded the Red Star OS computer operating system it uses in computers found in schools and libraries to mimic Apple’s Mac OS X, BBC News reports, a departure from the previous Windows-like Red Star OS version. Screenshots showing the revamped Red Star OS interface have been obtained from an American computer scientist, who purchased the Linux-based software in the region and posted on NorthKoreaTech. The OS X-like Red Star OS was apparently released in mid-2013, and it’s reportedly filled with government propaganda such as the calendar of the operating system, which shows 103 as the year instead of 2014 — or, “the number of years since the birth of former North Korean leader Kim Il-song.” It’s not
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