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13 weird and wonderful niche Linux distros

“One distro that’s never going to trouble the top of the
Distrowatch rankings chart is Red Star OS. This is the Linux
distribution that was developed/is being developed as the
officially sanctioned operating system of North Korea, apparently
at the behest of Kim Jong-Il, the country’s leader.

It’s based on the familiar KDE 3.x, but with added touches
including the Woodpecker antivirus software and the Pyongyang
Fortress firewall.


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