Red Star OS 3.0 Action – North Korean Communist Linux in OS X Style

Red Star OS — North Korean Linux-based operating system and developed by The Korea Computer Center (KCC). You can download ithere. Installation is easy, but exist some non-obvious points:

You need to enter: name, username, password, repeat password, hint(my_pass for example).

Select DHCPv4.

After installation we can see the Linux in Apple Style:

Default browser — Naenara is a reworked Firefox. Red Star also use KDE 3 and WINE application. Basic software: e-mail client, multimedia (audio and video players), PDF Viewer, games, software for music creators etc.

Tips and tricks:

Root access

$ rootsh
# setenforce 0

English interface

# sed -i 's/ko_KP/en_US/g' /etc/sysconfig/i18n
# sed -i 's/ko_KP/en_US/g' /usr/share/config/kdeglobals

 

Internet connection

Global Internet is blocked by iptables, but you can fix it:

# iptables -F

or

# rm /etc/sysconfig/iptables && /sbin/service iptables restart

Guess a Red Hat-based system? Right, Red Star use the RPM-packages:

kernel-PAE-2.6.33.3-85.rs3.0.i686.rpm
kernel-2.6.33.3-85.rs3.0.i686.rpm

glibc-2.10.1-2.i686.rpm
yum-3.2.22-4.rs3.0.noarch.rpm
gnutls-1.6.3-2.rs3.0.i386.rpm

kderc-3.5.1-5.rs3.0.noarch.rpm
kdelibs-3.5.1-2.3.rs3.0.i386.rpm
kdebase-3.5.1-5.rs3.0.i386.rpm 
kdeartwork-3.5.1-1.2.rs3.0.i386.rpm 
kernel-headers-2.6.33.3-85.rs3.0.i686.rpm

gtk+-1.2.10-50.rs3.0.i386.rpm 
grep-2.5.1-52.2.rs3.0.i386.rpm
sed-4.1.5-1.2.rs3.0.i386.rpm

ffmpeg-0.4.9-5.rs3.0.i386.rpm
rpm-4.4.2-15.2.rs3.0.i386.rpm

Read also:

Notes on Red Star OS 3.0

Installation Guide

Wikipedia