Red Star OS

Last Updated on: 22nd June 2023, 07:22 pm

Web site: www.naenara.com.kp/en/kcc/ (not active)
Origin: North Korea
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: KDE
Architecture: x86
Based on: Fedora (?)
Wikipedia: Red Star OS
Media: Install DVD
The last version | Released: 3.0 | 2014
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Red Star OS – a North Korean Linux based operating system, developed at the Korea Computer Center (KCC).

The Korea Computer Center (KCC), the leading IT R& D base of the DPRK, was founded on October 24, 1990 under the careful guidance of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il. It develops and supplies software and hardware products for various fields such as operating system, computer network, control & signal processing, biosignal processing and information security, and supports software development for important national projects.

Red Star 3.0 uses KDE 3 desktop environment, which was customized to look like Mac OSX desktop.
It features modified Mozilla Firefox browser called Naenara, to browse internet network known as Kwangmyong, and other apps such as: text editor, an e-mail client, audio and video players, games, and Wine which allows Windows programs to be run under Linux.

Screenshot source: Wikipedia


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28 thoughts on “Red Star OS”

  1. The links provided point to the website openingupnorthkorea.com, which is currently suspended by its hosting provider. These links should as such be considered as broken.
    Just wanted to report

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    • No. If you put some files into Red Star OS, some files will have an extra SHA256 of 31 bytes. This data is enough to store all the important data of your computer, such as timestamps, MAC host addresses, etc. So don’t install Red Star OS on your computer if you don’t have a special need to it (unless you’re using a virtual machine.)

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