I bumped on this yesterday:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35188570
To summarise: North Korea has this OSX's copycat system called Red Star OS. They built it over a Linux system and tampered with the source code to make it way creepier.
What strikes me is the similarity with OSX compared to any other Open-source UIs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
It seems they used KDE 3 to do the trick.
Red Star OS
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sentient06
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Re: Red Star OS
Nice finding. Even closer to the original GUI than PearOS or Elementary.
I would give it a whirl if it wasn´t Korean alone.
I would give it a whirl if it wasn´t Korean alone.
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Re: Red Star OS
I seem to recall back in the day someone took the WMI they developed it and installed it on vanilla KDE3 WM. I seem to recall that a few of the widgets didn't place quite accurately; that was version 1.0 though, they might have fixed that.