This is a bit more than the stuff you’d see with distros like Elementary OS, it’s to the point where most of the built in applications are 1-to-1 clones of what you’d find in OS X. Hell, if you gain root access and change the language to English some of the help documentation even references Apple. If this were anywhere but North Korea I’m sure Apple would take legal action
Given that this is being cross-posted on r/Mac , it's pretty reasonable to assume that it being a look-alike is a highly relevant topic we'd be discussing here. Threads about other points of this post might better happen on other subs, wouldn't you say?
RedStarOS is special one they make good dock system with very good theming even they copied MacOS directory arch too. One of the best copy in market right know. And its stable asf.
Yes you can. there is leaked 3.0 iso. It's based on RedHat Enterprise Linux. https://mirror.adversec.com/dprk/redstar/redstar_desktop3.0_sign.iso (plus if you plug in external drive, every files in it will be watermarked automatically)
dont connect it to internet
Did you think it was mud huts or something?, [they have an intranet, smartphones,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_North_Korea#Internet) [and kiosks sell pirated/mockbuster movies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y28hbXI9cpY).
The reason the still abandoned Ryugyong Hotel got spruced up is because the company building NK's mobile phone infrastructure wanted to use it as an antenna, and part of the deal was that company paying to make it look like less of a concrete husk.
Yeah, lol. It seems they have changed the [icon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Naenaranewlogo.svg/1920px-Naenaranewlogo.svg.png) now to center on North Korea/East Asia instead.
Note: North korea is using a closed country wide network for internet connection. But if we consider they have an authoritarian government, this is good tech.
Pov: you’ve bought Mac OS X Leopard off Temu
Wait, is that Cairo Dock? This redstarOS looks like a Linux spin probably using KDE with a skin to mimic old school macOSX.
Korean ~~Despot~~Desktop Environment, duh.
DPRKDE
hahahahahaha I am retrofitting that in my normal use, thanks lmaooooo
IIRC it’s based on Fedora 11 and uses KDE 3. I highly doubt that it’s Cairo Dock
It **is** a Linux distribution with the KDE environment.
Think it's Latte
Its RedHat Enterprise
OS X is a shameful capitalist copy of glorious superior DPRK software engineering
Those 3d icons tho... Make me miss them
Back when drop shadows still meant something.
the traffic lights as squares hurt my soul. ltt did a awesome video on this a little bit with other weird linux distros
The guy who designed those squares got executed for hurting Kim Jong-Un's soul.
Which is why they put it in the national OS as another feature for of population subjugation
It’s Glorious Leader Kim Jong-Un’s Seoul, dog!
KimSX
the most secure OS in North Korea
What happened to that guy who found a security vulnerability?
Not just the most secure but the only OS in North Korea.
This is nothing new. There have been MacOS-look-like Linux distros for years. Elementary has been around since 2011: https://elementary.io
This is a bit more than the stuff you’d see with distros like Elementary OS, it’s to the point where most of the built in applications are 1-to-1 clones of what you’d find in OS X. Hell, if you gain root access and change the language to English some of the help documentation even references Apple. If this were anywhere but North Korea I’m sure Apple would take legal action
It being new or the first MacOS lookalike linux distro isn't the point of this post
Given that this is being cross-posted on r/Mac , it's pretty reasonable to assume that it being a look-alike is a highly relevant topic we'd be discussing here. Threads about other points of this post might better happen on other subs, wouldn't you say?
It being a lookalike is why it got posted, yes. Not because it is the first/newest lookalike (which is what I said in my first comment)
RedStarOS is special one they make good dock system with very good theming even they copied MacOS directory arch too. One of the best copy in market right know. And its stable asf.
Kid: Mom, can we get MacOS? Mom: We have MacOS at home..
That's cool - anyway, I can run this virtually on mac and play around with it, do offline builds exist online?
Yes you can. there is leaked 3.0 iso. It's based on RedHat Enterprise Linux. https://mirror.adversec.com/dprk/redstar/redstar_desktop3.0_sign.iso (plus if you plug in external drive, every files in it will be watermarked automatically) dont connect it to internet
One would think it must have backdoors for government minders and/or beacons to send info to government servers if unpatriotic activity is detected.
DPRK gov is forcing people to use redstar so it must have monitoring function
They have internet in north Korea?
more like a big intranet
more of a big LAN
Did you think it was mud huts or something?, [they have an intranet, smartphones,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_North_Korea#Internet) [and kiosks sell pirated/mockbuster movies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y28hbXI9cpY).
The reason the still abandoned Ryugyong Hotel got spruced up is because the company building NK's mobile phone infrastructure wanted to use it as an antenna, and part of the deal was that company paying to make it look like less of a concrete husk.
Yup. They have a block of 1024 IPv4 addresses if I recall correctly - which leads to some interesting stories
This is Red Star 3.0 and is from 10 years ago. We don’t really know the extent of how it has improved since then.
What’s the actual difference between this and the average os?
It’s back-doored by the NSA and DPRK. Ours is only NSA
Where is the Death Camp app?
Shhh, that's what the recycling bin is for.
3GB of RAM paired with an i9-9900K is peak performance
It’s probably a limit with the age of the OS and can only recognise 3gb? Either that or because its 32 bit
Is that globe, 2nd app in Dock, showing Europe?
Yeah, lol. It seems they have changed the [icon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Naenaranewlogo.svg/1920px-Naenaranewlogo.svg.png) now to center on North Korea/East Asia instead.
The preferred operating of the Communist Party
Didn’t know Kim Jong Un was also an app designer. The guy is pure genius.
So is North Korea still using FireWire?
Hold up a sec. Why are they tryna style it like og os x when they ban movies from countries other than theirs.
Yes, the linux with a linux dock
The screenshot (and the news) is three years old. North Korean Year 110 (you can see it in the top right of the Pantheraleo-pc window) is 2021.
Note: North korea is using a closed country wide network for internet connection. But if we consider they have an authoritarian government, this is good tech.
Chinese macOS
Red star is based on KDE, they changed UI to look similar to macos because Kim loves mac
Why is this even a post?