Red Star OS isn’t made to be shared with the outside world. We only know about the operating system because we’ve gotten occasional snapshots of it from visitors to North Korea.

Red Star 3.0 was first leaked in 2014. We knew then that while it's still based on Linux, it ditched its former Windows XP-style UI for that of a mid-2000s-era Mac OS X machine.

Red Star OS. DON'T MISS: This fan theory explains who the new Star Wars villain might really be Recently, German researchers Florian As the most closed-off country on the planet, it ...

Red Star OS is North Korea’s official operating system. It is based on Linux and made to look like OS X but that’s where similarities end. For the first time we’re getting details on what ...

Red Star also comes with a number of preinstalled security features. The OS comes with its own anti-virus system, which gets updates from a server located in North Korea.

North Korea has upgraded the Red Star OS computer operating system it uses in computers found in schools and libraries to mimic Apple’s Mac OS X, BBC News reports, a departure from the previous ...

Although it is Red Star OS used in North Korea as an OS that is not open to the outside, version 2.0 will leak to the media in 2010. North Korea developed its own domestically produced OS "Red ...

Security researchers have stripped down the North Korean-built Red Star OS, an operating system based on Linux and designed for use in the communist country.The researchers, Florian Grunow and Nik ...

You can check out a full 27 minute run down of how Red Star OS operates and what it looks like below, but for now, we’ve compiled a few photos which showcase the OS’ striking similarity to OS X.

The secret software that powers North Korea’s computers has been revealed by researchers. The country’s computers run custom-created software that is built to stop information escaping and to ...