The latest version of the country's home-grown operating system, Red Star Linux, has been restyled and ships with a desktop that closely resembles Apple's Mac OSX. The previous version was based on the popular KDE desktop that mimicked that of Windows 7.
Red Star Linux was developed by the Korea Computer Center (KCC), a major center of software programming in Pyongyang, and is based on Linux, the open-source operating system originally developed by Linus Torvalds.