• Tiral@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    And DPRK has their own OS, it doesn’t mean it isn’t shit. Just because the CCP released a branch of Linux off open source software doesn’t mean it’s good or even innovative.

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      North Korea’s OS is Red Star, and I get the distinct impression you’ve never used it

      I’ve used Red Star 2 and 3. It’s a perfectly adequate OS, and just comes off as any old Linux distro with slightly odd settings. Despite technically bring It’s own OS, I was able to use run pretty much anything built for Linux without issue

      Calling it shit is reductive and inaccurate

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        Calling it shit is reductive and inaccurate

        Anything North Korea does is default assumed incompetently executed, maliciously intentioned, and/or the result of stolen work from a more skilled (western) developer/designer. The American Brain cannot comprehend the existence of a Soviet computer science expert. Certainly not one from a country where the prevailing wisdom is “These stupid foreigners all believe the President has a perfect golf score and never poops. Everyone eats grass because they’re always starving. And their army feeds their Olympic Soccer Team to wild dogs every time a player misses a goal in a qualifying match”.

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        Curious if there is anything proprietary in it or if an audit has been run on the code.

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          given it marks every file and does a whole other bunch of tracking stuff it definitly has some proprietary additions