Apple picker North Korea has already come up with its own versions of the operating system in previous years. The latest, third version of the operating system, called Red Star Linux, brings a radical change to the user interface that closely resembles Apple's OS X. The new look replaces the Windows 7-like interface used by the second version of the software.
Workers at the development center Korea Computer Center in Pyongyang are not idle at all, and they started developing Red Star ten years ago. Version two is three years old, and version three appears to have been released in the middle of last year. But the world is only now getting a look at the third version of the system thanks to Will Scott, a computer expert who recently spent an entire semester in Pyongyang studying at the University of Science and Technology. It is the first ever North Korean university that is financed from foreign sources, and thus professors and students from abroad can work here.
Scott bought the operating system from the Korea Computer Center dealer in the capital of Korea, so he could now show the world photos and images of the third version of the software without any modifications. Red Star Linux includes a Mozilla-based web browser called "Naenara". It also includes a copy of Wine, which is a Linux application that allows you to run applications designed for Windows. Red Star is localized for North Korea and offers a special version of the Mozilla Firefox Naenara Internet browser, which allows you to view intranet pages only, and it is not possible to connect to the global Internet.
How pathetic.
sorry yes, but they copied it really well (I'm talking about the appearance) I have linux on my netbook and to come up with a theme that looks good is sometimes quite an adventure...
I wonder if the guys at Apple will have the courage to sue them :)
i think steve once said he would be sued even if he started a nuclear war. so now it's possible :) I'd be interested in how many computers the system in North Korea can actually run on. probably to Kim and his family :D
The way I look, both Koreas are the same ;) :)
It would be nice to go to both, they will show you how they are the same :)
After reading the title, I wanted to write here immediately that someone is confusing North and South Korea again. But after reading the article, I can't help but wonder...
The technology itself in North Korea is way behind. Even traveling is almost impossible. I don't understand where they got the blueprint for the system, when they don't even have a proper internet here. :D
Well, as far as I know, North Korea even has a military unit specialized in hacking. the fact that there are cases where people are murdered and their own relatives eaten because of hunger does not change the fact that a certain type of people have access to the ice cream, see the picture of how Kim cumi to the factory line of copied mobile phones, with their also-copied OS. since the last time they showed that wooden cupboard with Kim and the title "computer system for controlling missiles", maybe take steps forward, Well, or there is a simpler explanation, it's just completely FAKE!!!
It must be GNOME2/MATE or something similar, in the past there have been quite a few GTK/Qt themes that closely resembled OSX. I would suggest Docky for the bottom panel (again, it has more alternatives). So someone must have bent some Linux distro and played with the appearance a bit. http://sajithd.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-with-OS-X-Lion-theme-245131639 this topic is much closer to OSX than what is in this article.
Otherwise, the Linux alternative to OSX is called Elementary OS http://elementaryos.org it is built on Ubuntu.
The whole Gnome has been stealing from OSX since the beginning. As far as I can remember, from the beginning there was an option to have the appearance of those round glass buttons, the top sheet ala OSX and the traffic light button for stopping windows. I don't even want Linux to hear it. On the contrary, I regularly see why I use the overpriced Gnome. :=)
Some like it, and GNOME allows it. Honestly the last Fedora with KDE I'm running on at work is perfect for my needs. Every other interface just slows me down. I might be writing from Windows now, but they're only as good as the Chrome launcher. I can't work on them.
You probably have a short memory :-)
The question is who is robbing whom. In general, Gnome had some features 10 years ago that Apple introduced with great fanfare a few years later (spaces, etc.). After all, the entire Appstore is just a user-friendly version of repositories.
who will boot it on my mac?
Advice better than Vista :D
I especially like how everyone has their own OS, when it's all Linux anyway. Today, unfortunately, nothing but Unix-based Sundays.
Like a theme on WXP and W7? So that I don't have to look at those patwars from MS? ;)