Red Star OS - A Look at North Korean Computing [Part 1]

[@darklinggolem]

America: Tim Cook North Korea: Kim Cook

[@yarpyarp5647]

Special K 😂

[@NomadicDmitry]

I laughed so hard, OMG! :)

[@dcorbe]

Kim Took

[@dimitrypetrov3877]

😂

[@janluofficial]

Kim Cock not Kim Cook

[@legopoliceman]

North Korea - the only place on Earth where it's actually "The Year of the Linux Desktop"

[@yellowcrash10]

DrDemonHD Red Star OS is a Linux distribution.

[@VicMcFly111]

Suomi perkele, torilla tavataan

[@orokro_stuff]

Subpar OS for Supbar Country!

[@ryukshinigami5106]

@Channel07 normies......

[@emestella_]

@Channel07 You're right. Windows helped a lot to make the PC world a standard, and helped a lot to make Intel and AMD architectures popular to the desktop users. Without Windows, there would be only techies and advanced computer users who would be able to use it, and maybe a big architecture disparity. Don't get me wrong, I LOOOOOOVE LINUX. But we just can't ignore how Windows has mold the market and, in a very uncommon way, actually helped Linux Kernel to not go on a dead road. Without Windows, someone else could have done their work, but not for sure. Apple was definitely too close as a desktop system to help users do what they want with a computer.

[@ReinaertVandeCruys1]

Just to be clear, KDE, the desktop environment used in this video, by itself already looks very OSX-like, and it requires little tweaking to make it look even more similar. The K in front of the name of many applications is also KDE"s doing, a complete KDE installation ships with programs like KMail, KOrganizer, Kontact and so on. So, as far as the interface is concerned, this is nearly an out-of-the-box KDE installation, not much tweaking by North-Korea going on here.

[@jnzooger]

+Reinaert Van de Cruys Thank you, I came here to say almost exactly that.

[@cptmiche]

+jnzooger You both beat me to the punch.

[@archlinuxrussian]

+Reinaert Van de Cruys yeah, and they couldn't just "copy over" OS X programmes. On another note, have you seen that programme, KFinder, anywhere else? I wonder if it's exclusive to this OS o.o which would be interesting!

[@ReinaertVandeCruys1]

+archlinuxrussian Good point, I hadn't noticed that. I'm guessing they just took KDE's kFind and renamed it to kFinder to more closely match OSX's Finder, but I can't tell, because he doesn't seem to actually open kFinder in this or in the next video.

[@GioGziro95]

KDE Plasma looks more like Windows out of the box. I am a Plasma 5 user and I can safely say that this shit is heavily tweaked. The applications in the video look almost completely different. I don't only mean the theming - I mean everything. And I know that it's a very old version of the desktop, but still - KDE 3 didn't look like that. KDE's calendar app is called KOrganizer, not kCal and it looks completely different. Also, I've never heard of an app called KFinder; KDE's default file manager is Dolphin nowadays and it used to be Konqueror in the 3.x era; it has never been KFinder. The most of the stuff in the OS looks like software that is either written in DPRK from scratch or forked from other open-source projects. The first "k"s in the app names probably stand for Korea; they might have been inspired by Apple's "i"-things and KDE's "K"-things as well, but I'm pretty sure, the motivation behind it wasn't from either of the last two. I'm kind of surprised that they've made that close rip-off of macOS, though.

[@iikurt]

_"The CD goes into the hard drive"_ - mjd7999, *Nov 18, 2015*

[@ananttiwari1337]

@@ymcooper **what**

[@justinianthegreatandnerd6377]

@@UNIXUNIX-op9fu w h a t t h e

[@Sheikh_Speare]

Huh, so he's old name was mjd7999, neat.

[@Commie-San]

**Neuron activation**

[@RedasRedas-n8f]

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[@Foas]

25:18 No, that's year. because it's year 104 in North Korea atm.

[@MichaelMJD]

+Foas Ok that makes more sense haha

[@DO-rs6hq]

+mjd7999 Fun fact, it's based on the birth year of Kim Il-sung, which is 1912. That year is defined as Juche 1. Therefore, the current year in the North Korean system is 2015 - 1911 = 104 → Juche 104

[@madmax1717]

+Diyar Oktay kinda like birth of Jesus lol

[@cheeseninja3063]

madmax1717 yea basically, the DPRK is mostly atheist, although they are many religious people (evidenced by the DPRK’s 3rd political party, the religion party) so it wouldn’t make sense to use a calendar based off religion, so they used something that they actually believe in...

[@Sergei_kv82]

Keep in mind they use their own calender alongside the Georgian calender.

[@lukewilson4327]

the juche 104 is the year in North Korea. Year one in in North Korea is the year their first leader was born.

[@RedasRedas-n8f]

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[@a.a.2775]

Waiting for the kPhone 7

[@xtrememusic1732]

see description

[@A-BYTE94]

Ourphone

[@Yngdady]

It's probably on aliexpress

[@matthewbob_moostachepants5563]

@@A-BYTE94 nah haven’t u heard of the wephone 13

[@matthewbob_moostachepants5563]

@@A-BYTE94 no…??

[@JimmiG84]

The ironic thing is that this OS has probably been seen by more people outside NK than inside it. People living there are lucky to even have seen a computer, let alone one that's actually plugged into anything and functioning.

[@itechiwizard83]

Very much this. More than 50% of that country doesn't even have electricity.

[@KGEZeroHtr0]

March 2020, still hope there's at least a few people inside Peongyang being able to use it.

[@haseenabadshah5381]

69 likes lmao

[@brianressler569]

yeah I'm guessing they mainly use this internally since most of those people probably don't have reliable access to electricity

[@totzinfo]

you are under estimating NK, I've been in NK in 90s their elementary & high schools already has computer course/ subject where computer programming language as part of their dialect language development, NK are already widely electrified nationwide and electricity is free

[@mihaiserban8656]

Why there isn't Kim Jong-Un as desktop packground?!?

[@ludvigfrestadius8653]

Transylvania Vampires They are showing kim jong uns future.

[@CedricJ.project]

That's a intresting question. They're making propaganda everywhere but not here?

[@RalphInRalphWorld]

Transylvania Vampires His image is probably considered too sacred to be a desktop background.

[@cheeseninja3063]

Maybe because they aren’t as crazy as you think

[@majoryoshi]

Given that each household is required to have a poster of Kim Jong-Un as you walk in, the government might see it as cheating the system to allow the background to be Kim Jong-Un Source: my world/human geography classes

[@niccoramos7965]

8:03 우리 식 조작체계 ( 붉은별 ) Our very own O.S ( Red Star ) 설치준비를 하고있습니다 ( Installation is being prepared ) 체계구획을 초기화하고 있습니다 ( System Parts are being Initialized ) --------- 예 : Yes 아니 : No 이전 : Previous 다음 : Next 딧크관리 : Disk Management

[@GioGziro95]

Host OS: Windows 10; Guest OS: Red Star OS. Yo, dawg. We heard you like spyware, so we put spyware inside your spyware.

[@LiEnby]

Redstar = less spying than windows 10

[@TheInfi]

@@LiEnby Actually, no spying, according to Wikipedia. But Updates.

[@mpwsh]

This Korea Herald article specifically states that the OS was designed to monitor and report on web usage. I doubt running this outside the country will be able to report anything back to the reclusive state, but out of an abundance of caution, you may want to run this with the network unplugged. www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/04/123_63669.html

[@solaireofastora2890]

@@LiEnby this thing literally prints your ip and MAC address on anything you download so it can be used agaist you. Lmao

[@LiEnby]

@@solaireofastora2890 that would break whatever you download thou and north korea doesnt need your ip becuase the entire internet there is just a big NAT lol

[@davemee]

Oh wow. Around 20:41, the date on Hardware Overview is listed as 11/17/Juche104. American date order (not international, interesting) and Juche104 meaning 104 years since the start of Juche (I think - not the birthdate of the great leader? one of them). That date knocked me out, suddenly realising what a bubble they impose. Thanks for making this.

[@zhang-boyu]

Yes. Year Juche 1 equals to year 1912 AD when Kim Il-Sung was born.

[@totzinfo]

but RedStar OS can also be universally customized to any time/ date format

[@totzinfo]

I.m using RedStar OS from version 1 to 3 I have no problem on it

[@anomaly9156]

@@totzinfo Why would you specifically use redstar os? Oh, wait... you are the bot spamming things about nk despite so much otherwise evidence.

[@RedasRedas-n8f]

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[@MichaelMJD]

This is my first video to break 100K views. Thanks for watching and sharing the vid guys! :)

[@flyingninja1234]

I always thought it was pronounced as juke. Learn something new everyday.

[@zetaspartan6740]

+Michael MJD so how did you make your copy of redstarroot.rpm into an .iso file that showed up on your VM's desktop? it just kinda showed up there at 15:42 with no explanation as to how and I can't figure out how to get my redstarroot.rpm file onto my own VM's desktop, any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

[@LegendGamer-ed3mr]

Its Pronounced as Naenara

[@RedasRedas-n8f]

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[@rentacowisgoogle]

North Korea will not DDoS your internet connection for using the OS. If they tried that on everyone running the OS outside of N.Korea it would probably be considered an act of war. If anything they would encourage people to use it because that would help reinforce the idea that it is the best OS in the world, created by them, the smartest people on earth.

[@mayravixx25]

Still don't want them knowing who I am tho

[@cfalcon0754]

@@UNIXUNIX-op9fu Looks like the North Korean spy just got in the comment section!

[@gamingstuffbyroni2456]

You are true, but I wouldn't risk it.

[@rhettpete]

If they are smart as they think they are, they should use the software to scan and hide in networks outside k

[@bipsportv1462]

South korea - samsung North korea - redOs Lmao

[@itechiwizard83]

They wouldn't even have that if it wasn't for the Western Linux. Lmao.

[@Flooflo]

@Koltin Driver also USA: Arch btw

[@Abcd123Alex]

@@Flooflo also usa : windows

[@Green-li4mk]

@@Abcd123Alex Also USA: GM-NAA I/O

[@thetype39]

South Korea doesn't even have their OS (for desktop PC). In that point of view, North Korea got a point. Actually South one try to develop "Tmax Window" as their own OS, but turns out hugh fail. Even worse than Red Star.

[@Ikram232]

I think I found my new favourite KZbinr, this is really interesting. I love unique content like this, you've earned yourself a regular subscriber!

[@waynecaffey4992]

You're kidding? He rambles on and on, seems like he has no script.

[@Eaton.]

​@@waynecaffey4992 he obviously doesn't have a script lol. You're either into it or you're not.

[@waynecaffey4992]

@@Eaton. um I think you miss the point.

[@LukeTEvans]

imagine being a north korean scientist, you just get to rip off anyone..

[@kyrandm6045]

just think of what they would do with nintendo games

[@toninhosoldierhelmet4033]

doens't mean you don't have to obey to your dictatorial overlords, that really sucks

[@barnacles1352]

Kyran DM they prob dont even have video game consoles

[@Icy_vixen]

Imagine how Steve Jobs would react if North Korea copied the Mac user interface?

[@Connelly90]

"Good artists copy; great artists steal" - Steve Jobs

[@Icy_vixen]

Good luck suing North Korea Steve Jobs because they'll obviously not do anything about it because their a communist state that's already under fire for resisting the nuclear test ban treaty.

[@Icy_vixen]

If he was still alive, that would be a different story. Other than that, you're right.

[@SMGJohn]

You gonna have to go look at Linux Elementary OS first

[@belstar1128]

I dont think steve jobs was going to be able to do shit against a entire country that claims they are going to nuke the usa if they get the chance.

[@TimurTripp2]

Looks like they didn't have access to anything newer than Mac OS X Leopard to copy, must still be using PowerPC Macs over there 😂

[@KirnGill]

+Timur Tripp Or their development cycles are so long (possibly due to a lack of developer manpower) that it wouldn't have been feasible to copycat a newer release.

[@TimurTripp2]

+Kirn Gill (segin) I suppose it's possible. I just read that it was released in mid 2013, two years after the release of Mac OS X Lion in mid 2011. Leopard and Snow Leopard (released in 2009) are close enough in appearance that it would be hard to tell which OS was used

[@cptmiche]

+Timur Tripp OSX is also extremely similar to Linux. So some of the "similarities" to OSX shown here, are ubiquitous across Unix like operating systems.

[@mustangrt8866]

as it does boot on a VM, it must be atleast x86 or Amd64

[@mustangrt8866]

probably they have scrap pentiums or athlons from China

[@danhlesh]

Red Star OS is best OS

[@ExtraGloves240]

Is it Better than Windows?

[@AustinCraftFanpage]

+Josh Caviness YOU MEAN "FALSE RED STAR OS"

[@thesamuelong10]

Danh lol maybe no internet

[@Naturenerd1000]

Safer than Linux more closed than IOS

[@MikeFromDownUnder]

Really?!

[@FreakShowGR]

nice you showed their mistake on apple.com now the creators will be executed gj

[@anderu3531]

We had a North Korean person join my school, and on the first IT lesson, he turned to the teacher and asked if he was allowed to use the computer. when the teacher said yes, he was in disbelief and was so shocked...

[@asinglefrenchfry]

Anderu glad he got out of that country lmao

[@hedwig7s]

LOLOL

[@JS-wp4gs]

No you didn't. That literally cannot happen as north koreans would never be allowed to leave the country in such a manner, let alone be allowed into a school like that without supervision

[@vasilis23456]

@@JS-wp4gs who said he was allowed to leave?

[@yhfhfhfejdjdndj8188]

@@JS-wp4gs they can escape though

[@uhohspaghettios9966]

LOL I love the commentary! Great video, thanks for sharing; thoroughly enjoyed it especially all the "K" talk.

[@uhohspaghettios9966]

@tiger tiger Oh neat, a teen who just learned a few cuss words

[@RealistikDash]

they forgot to change apple.com to kapple.com

[@Nilguiri]

+RealPlayerCraft Or sagwa.com

[@JeordieEH]

+RealPlayerCraft This guy in the video has very little knowledge of what KDE is and it's applications. KDE has nothing to do with korea, it was originally made as a way to standardize linux apps for it's desktop, the same way windows provides it's standard uniform of windows for each application or the way mac does. Apps were written to have their own subsystem of app control in whatever desktop environment the linux OS was running that the user had. However KDE apps do have the K in front of the names. The designers liked this idea and followed suit, even tho they don't have any care for name copyright violations. However to them, they clearly view the K as korean. Rather than following suit of KDE's general conventional nomenclature. I can only speculate on the file manager they used, whether they took konqueror or used the popular dolphin code base. I know most people aren't familiar with KDE, but they have had some far reaching work even amongst apple and windows people. They developed a browser known as konqueuer. They had developed and provided an opensource engine for its browser they released known as webkit. Webkit has had some major success. It was originally worked on, but branched off by a very secretive company that was very hard to work with. If you knew how bad they are with disclosures and secretive work in coding and being unwilling to provide information to their coding back to the webkit project, you'd swear they were a korean company. However they go by the name of apple. They use a forked version of the webkit code to run their browser known as safari, even for their cellphones. Google uses a forked version as well when apple split to run their chrome web browser. Even android devices tend to run webkit for non chrome browsers. Steam runs webkit as well for its web browser. All that aside, I was surprised by some of his remarks on how they got the install and everything to look like mac os, like it was a hard feat for them to copy or steal. The linux community has long since made and provided mac os looking themes to their desktop. Most likely none of this was actual work done by the developers in recreating a dock or the theme. Maybe just the wallpapers and logo's and changing some of the wording and names. You will find things such as cursors for even windows that have the mac look them if you search the internet. Linux communities generally refer to any of the desktop themes that look like mac as cupertino. I have never cared to copy a dock or use mac based themes for windows or linux. I'm surprised that later he said the OS was based off of Fedora, yet he was earlier claiming it was unix like and chose other from the list in vmware. Fedora is listed. Unlike which file manager they used, the word program they used is based off of openoffice code from just looking at it, you notice as he accidentally hit saves, it tries to use odf. Which is open document format. However the developers did put in some interesting tamper proof precautions into the OS that make it reboot and some things that watermark documents and even add water markings to anything on USB sticks. So they aren't completely ameture programmers over there. However it does appear they just rebranded as much as they could from KDE. Still, I can only imagine how far behind they are on Red Star OS. Fedora has switched from KDE to gnome awhile back. Which is odd, gnome and unbuntu's unity(which is based on gnome), resemble mac os way much more. Besides that everything in gnome tends to look much better, which again, more like apple's desktop. Which makes me think the desktop is much older and based on old technology. As I wouldn't imagine they were taking fedora's main code and sticking kde back onto it. They probably set to work on a much older version and decided that it was too much work to keep up and import their code to newer versions.

[@RealistikDash]

+Jeordie White Thanks for info

[@Pocket-Calculator]

+Jeordie White The K in every KDE program has nothing to do with copyright, it's just an homage to UNIX programs having an X somewhere in their names.

[@cptmiche]

+Abel klawsuit. kdprk

[@serio0367]

7:35 You can also go to Applications > AppLink > Utitlities> Terminal, and in the shell enter the rootsetting command. Then, follow the prompts to enable sudo for all administrators.

[@RedasRedas-n8f]

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[@renegade637]

The fact that you're still allowed to download the English language to the OS seems to indicate that they only changed enough to dress it up to be more North Korean looking.

[@tovarishchfeixiao]

To be fair, average North Korean people won't even know how to do that and maybe not even know english to begin with. So it would be pointless to deal with it if the users not even know how to do the thing and not even have any reason to do the thing.

[@necroticDE]

I only translated up to the time zone window. It's a lot to write😆. If I have time, I may continue to translate: Ps. A lot of it won't make sense but you can understand it with context. 5:07 = Operation system > Our system > system 3.0 version for user is operation system of our type that realized system stability and performance, convenience of use and high security. next 5:14 = 《Red Stars》 User System Version 3.0 In User System System 3.0 version, you can proceed with the construction site through simple and simple user-facing. System installation consists of zoning management, administrator addition, administration, time zone setting, date and time setting, personalization of the package, and installation of the package. At each stage of the installation, you can use the help to conveniently proceed with the installation of the system. During installation, you can also press the User System 3.0 is searching. Already installed 5:36 = It must be mad. Do you want to reset the driver? No Yes 5:41 = Select the sphere where you want to install the instrumentation. Space Remaining 8 Volume 30,0CB Disk Management Previous Next 6:40 = Set Administrator Subscription Information Admin Name Many Names and Passwords Pass OK OK and Suggested Next 7:03 = Time Zone Setting Pyongyang Time Zone: W Lippin Manila Previous Next 7:26 = Date and Time Setting Date 2015.11.17: Time 19:34:24 Subject 104.11 O00 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 121 22 23 24 2s 26 27 28 29 30 Previous Next

[@supremealbanian2948]

bravo

[@narwhalian2375]

This is Linux. Linux isn't specific to any desktop environment so Unity has the managers on the right, while KDE has it on the left. The thing is, is that this looks more like XFCE, because KDE doesn't have docks and such, it has a windows-like interface. But it says KFinder, which is the Start Menu for KDE (KDE is an open-sourced company like GNOME that releases software, and their gimmick is that everything has a "K" in it, and no, it's not for Korea, they just like *K*onsoles), also, most of the Ks aren't even a part of it. You can tell RedStar OS is horribly unoriginal, and it's probably based on some crap like Ubuntu or fucking Fedora. They are both great systems, but I'm sure they would *not* approve of them being used for this shit xD

[@narwhalian2375]

Also I can tell you've never used Linux a day in your life xD

[@ohmree]

Since it uses the rpm format it's probably based on an old version of fedora And KDE is very customizable (although they may have written their own DE and shipped it with some KDE apps)

[@Pocket-Calculator]

Narwhale Productions Actually, the "K" in "KDE" used to stand for "Kool". They realized it was stupid, so now it's just a "K".

[@TheInfi]

@@Pocket-Calculator Kool in german sounds like the german word for cabbage, and since most of the devs are german, I can see the reason in the rename lol.

[@mayravixx25]

I was gonna say the same thing, it looks like XFCE.

[@alexlelel]

Alot of apps made for KDE usually starts with the letter ''K''.

[@limewirepro]

k

[@Koobello589]

*How to name a program* 1. What is it designed for? e.g. “writer”, “browser” 2. What is your favourite desktop environment? Add first letter of its name at the beginning. e.g. G for GNOME, K for KDE, X for Xfce *Done!* You invented a perfect name! KMusic, XNotepad…

[@kingonduty2825]

KKK

[@polyphonydigital]

@@ohmree Ah, yes, those linux fanboys.

[@ohmree]

@@polyphonydigital yikes, who let me use the internet 3 years ago

[@catriona5268]

Great video! Just a comment, the "Juche 104" is actually the North Korean method of counting years. Their ideology is called juche and I believe it's counting the number of years since Kim Il Sung's birth.

[@RedasRedas-n8f]

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[@IAmNotAFunguy]

"Juche" is North Korea's political policy of "self fulfillment". The number of the year comes from the current year minus the birth year of former leader Kim il-Sung. That makes 2016 actually year 105 under North Korea's calendar. That's the information according to Google.

[@andrewfeikema8808]

You should download the google translate app on your phone. You can use your camera to scan the foreign text, and it can convert it to English

[@narendrayadavkkc]

Andrew Feikema bing translation

[@MATAM29]

Andrew Feikema He translated it with terminal.

[@gbenay]

Thanks for the video, I watched both video. I learned something new about North Korea that I didn't know.

[@MichaelMJD]

That's awesome to hear! Thanks for watching the videos :)

[@marshallleevalentine]

Red Star is a Linux-Based distro that started back in 1998, before OSX.

[@matyastoth4886]

yeah but it did not look like that in 1998

[@thecrazyhacker6002]

yeah it is a new version of it ...

[@mildkeyboard_8]

If you are watching this 5 years later that’s great

[@ckingpro]

If you are wondering about the time, VMWare gave the current time (generally, the BIOS keeps track of the time and VMWare emulates it). During setup, you should base it off of linux and turn on hardware acceleration in Processor tab

[@fabian6514.cr3]

kcal are calories in europe for short

[@epiphonesg007]

+Resek Fabian Wrong, KCal are kilocalories. So that's a 1000x more.

[@jlee8348]

+epiphonesg007 In the US what we call "calories" are actually kilocalories.

[@epiphonesg007]

J Lee What you call Calories are called Dietary calories.

[@garretmkiii]

+epiphonesg007 Yep, which is measured in Calories, or 1000 calories, or 1 kilocalorie . Same idea as a bit vs byte (b vs B). Just dumb convention for interweb nerds to argue over. :D Just stick with joules; calories are not an SI unit anyways. 1 cal = 4.18 joules, and watts are joules/second. SI, be praised!

[@fabian6514.cr3]

fuck the calories

[@ar-4775]

41 North Korean officials disliked this.

[@CDNSpartan]

If they can get on to KZbin

[@Huskiefluff]

+Matthew Walsh they can't

[@Ballissle]

+AR S (K1r1t0) 68 now

[@ColinCKOV]

+AR S (K1r1t0) 70 now

[@emperorpalpatine445]

+Crazy Colin Videos 73 now

[@CyndaReal]

Kcal is actually a linux program.

[@animehair]

Nothing is copied from Apple here .... it's a customized Linux distribution with KDE desktop ... KDE applications typically begin with K. Nearly all the applications shown in this video have been around for ages. I would be interested in the under the hood modifications N Korea put into the OS.

[@MichaelMJD]

+David Cunningham The interface as a whole looks very much like Apple's OS X. Most of the applications I showed in the video look very similar to the Apple applications on OS X. I don't believe that KDE calls the applications sown in this video by the same name. For example, the calendar is just called "Calendar" . While KDE may use the 'k' prefix in some applications, it is obvious that the DPRK took a lot of inspiration from OS X when making this operating system.

[@emralcrewrblox]

Finder is a mac os name though. KDE uses dolphin file browser. And that system profile is spot onto the mac one.

[@archdoru9935]

JUCHE is the North Korean way of measuring time, adopted as a state policy. Juche year ONE is the birth year of the first "Beloved Leader", Kim IL-sung, who was the grandfather of the current "Beloved Leader". Kim IL-sung was born in 1912, which became year one in the Juche Calendar. So, right now, in 2020, we are in the year Juche 109.

[@JGeiger15]

I though the map at the time zone set up was really interesting. It probably confused you because we, westerners, are used to looking at a map which makes the west, especially North America, seem more prominent. Its interesting how that sort of image can affect one's thinking. I wonder what kind of maps they use in other eastern countries... I know its all just perspective, but its interesting to think about.

[@MichaelMJD]

+Jakob Geiger Yeah that's exactly why it threw me off haha. Other countries just have maps from different perspectives, and I obviously was not thinking this when making this video.

[@mrmlgtech1568]

can you get the tor browser for the red star os

[@jamiemarchant]

If someone has not said already, CHM is specifically the help format used for Windows 98 - XP that was replaced in newer OSs and abandonded in Windows 10.

[@endritveseli7463]

Props to these guys. This is the closest OS to mimic the Mac OS X I've ever seen. So cool!

[@ytrewq87]

I’m going to install this on my school computer

[@machinerin151]

In Asian world speaking the language and reading it is not the same thing. A lot of Chinese people can't read their language, but they still can read latin alphabet. Citizens of Japan and South Corea can read, because they are very dense and they mostly work for big companies which require papers and all that stuff. Since we don't have so much information about North Corea - I would assume, they are more like Chinese people: only government and people who work with papers and computers can read well, since the country is agricultural.

[@gurriato]

Unlike Chinese and Japanese, learning to read and write Korean is really simple. Unlike English and the Latin alphabet, Hangul fits the Korean language perfectly because it was designed from the ground up as a new national alphabet. So there's no reason for a Korean citizen to use romanizations.

[@ephemeralViolette]

@@gurriato Japanese is also very easy until you get to learning kanji.

[@deedubbs4412]

The developer of gold star got executed. We upgraded to red star.

[@wowitskevin]

I've watched several N. Korea documentaries... and from what I saw, most of their PC's run XP.

[@michaellin7936]

srsly wow

[@MondySpartan]

As the description said, they used to run XP or 7 PCs...

[@mcguy0888]

No, I’ve heard that Red Star Os 2.0 has a Windows XP style and feel

[@RedasRedas-n8f]

Alien flying saucer 8888888855555

[@5mnz7fg]

I appreciate that you don't use music but only your pleasant voice and narration. :-)

[@WrenFJ]

Red Star OS uses Fedora's Anaconda Installer.

[@kyrandm6045]

i hate that installer

[@dzvxo]

I remember this OS. A few years ago I was browsing the web when I came across this operating system.

[@MichaelMJD]

+WindowsLover6767 Yeah I think its been around for a few years now. It's a really interesting OS

[@dzvxo]

I just watched a talk on KZbin, and it turns out that nowadays most people in the DPRK use Windows XP and Windows 7. Red Star is mainly used for businesses and automation.

[@MichaelMJD]

+WindowsLover6767 I believe I saw that same talk a while back. I figured Red Star would of gained more popularity, but it is really surprising to me that they still use Windows over there.

[@carval51]

red star = Copy pasta technology

[@kadergumus2598]

And CPT stands for Copy Paste Technology. CPT 2.0 is on Red Star!

[@junkeith27]

Spartanunit117 it makes pasta? I want one

[@kadergumus2598]

J un :P

[@barnacles1352]

China does more copying than nk

[@MultiSciGeek]

I think Juche104 is the year they are in. Why would they be in November and June at the same time?

[@Diego-ms4ts]

The desktop environment it's a heavily customized KDE 3 topkek

[@stuff_7483]

I'm surprised they don't have a picture of the supreme leader in the background XD

[@KGEZeroHtr0]

Or their computer can't be shut down

[@Gothguyuk]

Id love to see apple try to sue them

[@CDNSpartan]

North Korea would probably nuke the apple headquarters

[@Gothguyuk]

That's why i said "Try" to sue them . they are aggressive and stupid enough to try .

[@dgramop]

I doubt they copied over macos applications - porting is probably harder than rewriting - but copy/pasting help dialogues (or their content) seems legit

[@totzinfo]

North Korean internet is a large scale version and a nationalized INTRANET

[@junstar]

@15:30 The 'A' / '가' toggle switches the keyboard input between English and Korean. Normally, the Right Alt key on the keyboard is the Hotkey.

[@asthmaticpathic]

North Korea: See! We have Internet and Macs! Everything is fine! :^)

[@ambiguousmartin4593]

If you noticed on the calendar the year was 104. That is because they started counting the years after Kim Il-Sung's birth in 1912.

[@flyderay]

this is frikin mac os 10.4 for servers rebranded

[@OpenKeith]

actually its not possible to directly copy a mac os app to a linux distro and run it, the os architecture is too different. so they didn't copy apple apps, they just recreated them

[@luaking84]

Nice review - it could have been about 8 - 9 times shorter, though with the same content :)

[@MichaelMJD]

+luaking84 Well it didn't turn out that way

[@luaking84]

+mjd7999 I'm no video creator so I hope you don't take this negatively - but for example, you progress to creating the VM after 2 minutes, 28 seconds. Unfortunately, people nowadays (sadly) have lost their attention spans due to instant availability of information. You'll lose a few potential viewers at that pace, that's all.

[@sinicalypse]

@@MichaelMJD SHAME! SHAAAAAME! THE COMMENTER IS ALWAYS RIGHT! At least you've had a few years to learn from your grave mistake here.

[@geckoonsteroids]

Make your own tech review content

[@jakeskepticguy2708]

Can't be any more oppressive than windows 10.

[@paulp7301]

Just use Google translate on your phone to get an idea of what prompts say. Works pretty good. Esp. the bit "all your most private info will be immediately used by the supreme leader and staff to improve your best living conditions at once" :)

[@niccoramos7965]

7:03 조선 Joson... ( This is how DPRK people call their side of Korea ) 평양 ( Pyongyang )

[@Farix1997]

Juche is the name of their ideology, it's called kcal because it uses the birth of the regime as the start of the years, like our before and after Christ. Basically that means 17th if November 104 years after the birth of the great leader and the ideology.

[@KlausarMinecraft]

Just a information on the calendar: Juche 104 means it's the 104th year after the birth of Kim-Il-Sung. It's called the "Juche-Calendar". They use it in North Korea.

[@oraclematon9277]

The "Juche104" is not "June" but "Juche calendar" only in NK.

[@linuxlounge]

Tried to install this on my netbook, it just gets stuck at the bootlogo, in fact it wouldn't boot at all without me using unetbootin

[@MichaelMJD]

+Linux Lounge what specs does your netbook have? It does take a while for it to boot during the setup process

[@linuxlounge]

mjd7999 2gb ram, atom processor. How long should it take, by the way I used unetbootin

[@ricogoins]

Damn this is an OG mjd vid. Still exact voice lol

[@stephenfienberg8765]

The Juche calendar is the North Korean calendar that starts with the birth of their lord Kim Il Sung who was born on 15 April 1912 in the Gregorian calendar. The Juche calendar counts the years starting from his birth.

[@TheCsabi86]

Am I watching now because I watched this video?

[@superpie64]

I'd pay big money to get one of those computers with red star pre installed.

[@남윤태섭]

i am korean.i am not sure but red star os is a os to watch people who are downloading this.i am no sure i think i read in the article

[@TescoMealDeal571]

Its powered by KDE, hence where it has K in the start of some apps

[@CityAnimate]

K can also stand for Kim as in KimMail or KimManager

[@probanity]

"Kimdosoft K-dows 10"

[@nathanyellowstarthegoanimator]

I wish I Can Install that On a VM. and Also Why it uses the Korean Language instead of US English. Even I Am a Filipino

[@Ballissle]

please someone tell me how to get the root access file on the virtual machine desktop. I cant get it on

[@Ballissle]

+Bran04don13 | Variety Gaming i managed to get it to log as a system admin but it still wont do root commands or changed to english after restart and I cant get the redstarroot.rpm file on there

[@Unknown_Ooh]

Does this count as a hackintosh ?

[@vivianciurus5326]

Part 3 when

[@LosEagle]

I like how they aren't trying to rip off OS X design.. not at all

[@Microsoft-Windows]

What's funny here is the Miller Columns in the file browser! I couldn't find one (like ranger only a graphical one) that does this. It's most likely something from kde? Which program is it?

[@Addicted2Java4Life]

Why didn't you get someone from your office or a friend who SPEAKS their language to TRANSLATE it for us?

[@FSPKwon]

I can read does that mean I can use redstart? ii mean redstart: *correction -> they're fine-detailist perspectivitizers is *just that

[@grappydingus]

CHM files are Windows help file HTML format, and some people encode books in that file format, which you would use that viewer for.

[@TSVAMSG7852]

Imagine an OS called "Red Star XP"

[@mrpeebsshorts]

Bruh I installed it in a vm then I closed and reopened virtual box after shutting down the guest os and the OS disappeared from the os list, it could be just a glitch but that spooked me.

[@ndr_32]

I think I'm in love with your laughter, buddy.

[@josemiguelq]

looks better than windows vista

[@CDNSpartan]

And Windows 8

[@Asameshimae]

Honestly, I realized when I saw the interface and spinning beachball, THIS IS NORTH KOREA'S VERSION OF MAC OS X!!!

[@quenz.goosington]

Juche is like their "religion" or more philosophy. I think it's referring to their calendar system which starts from when their original leader was born.

[@jtc1947]

WOULD HIGHLY SUGGEST putting any NK software on a VIRTUAL MACHINE!

[@jtc1947]

@25freebsd25 freebsd25 What's with all the 7's ? Your keyboard get stuck?

[@luke_0605]

Juche is their calender system

[@archdoru9935]

Although Mac OSX as a whole, is an Apple Proprietary System, it is in fact a Linux/Unix derivative, the whole of which is open source, meaning anybody can use it and modify it to their liking, than turn around and give it away for free or sell it. This also includes the ability to create something proprietary out of it, which is in fact exactly what Apple did, and ultimately what North Korea did with this Red Star OS. And it is not American made software, as you claim, the Linux Kernel was patented as free software by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student, back in 1991. Basically, as long as you don't use the exact same source code as Apple did in OSX, you are not infringing on any copyrights whatsoever.

[@elbiggus]

Super late, and has probably already been mentioned, but the CHM viewer is presumably there for reading Compiled HtMl help files from any older Windows apps you run via WINE - the format was introduced in Win 95 OSR 2.5/NT4.0 and lasted through to the mid 2000s before being gradually replaced. (The usual Windows icon is a sort of maroon book with a big yellow question mark on the cover.)

[@mechanopixel2639]

7:42 It's probably because VMWare Workstation syncs the guest os' hardware/bios clock with your host computers' clock settings

[@MichaelMJD]

+Ludburgh Miyajima (TakataruMC) Yeah I started to realize that after I re-watched that clip lol

[@klikbayt]

Korean here. Press the icon right next to the time. You can see "조선어" which means "Korean". I've never used Red OS but I think you can go to language settings by pressing that. Hope it helps

[@klikbayt]

And when you go to settings, "다국어"(the first one), which means "multi language", is the only option related to language, so I guess that could be the one

[@klikbayt]

Oh, I had left comments right before you changed the language..