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  • North Korea: The new outsourcing capital?

    North Korea: The new outsourcing capital?

    Is North Korea the next Silicon Valley? PC World seems to think so, with a story that explains how the country is the new hotspot for outsourcing (among other IT initiatives). Apparently North Korea is the pound-for-pound best place for IT talent in the world. That is, you won't find a country with a better, more educated collection of computer programmers and engineers, software designers and the like in such close quarters.

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  • North Korea develops its own Linux distro called Red Star OS

    North Korea develops its own Linux distro called Red Star OS

    If you guys weren't terrified of North Korea by now, here's more evidence that the country is absolutely nuts: they've developed their own Linux distribution! It's called Red Star OS, and we can thank a Russian student for unearthing it for us. I now fully expect to see knee-jerk reactions like, "Down with Linux!" even though that makes no sense at all.

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