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North Korea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
by liquidwax 13y ago
North Korea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
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- crdoconnor 13y agoEven North Korea, they're still training them on office/windows: http://imgur.com/lQQGjyu http://imgur.com/lQQGjyu (taken in a school in pyongsong, autumn last year)
- ekianjo 13y agoThis is probably just to make it look like they do learn stuff on computers, but the level of poverty in NK is so appalling I doubt they have computers in most schools.
- leoc 13y agoOh, most people in NK never get a sniff of a computer. But it has some animation and IT-outsourcing businesses which are no doubt a nice little foreign-currency earner for the government: http://www.koreaittimes.com/story/8242/north-korea-needs-set-practical-it-training-and-certification-systems http://www.koreaittimes.com/story/8242/north-korea-needs-set... http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1906219,00.html http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1906219,00... http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/8/153816-inside-the-hermit-kingdom/fulltext http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/8/153816-inside-the-hermi... (A¢M paywalled)
- lambda 13y agoWow, I love that sign! It has such a classic Soviet propaganda feel, it's appears to be entirely hand-painted despite the fact that it's offering computer courses (hand done sign lettering is a dying art in the West), and it has an awesome retro-futuristic robot! Now I'm wondering what those dates on the bottom refer to.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoIn practice, the DPRK uses XP a lot. I base this off of the fact that in all the images of DPRK people using computers, they're all running XP.