Red Star OS 3. 0 VMware Installation and Playaround

After reading RichardG s Ramblings blog post and his experience of the the recently leaked Northern Korean Linux distro Red Star OS, I gave the OS a go under VMware. I followed RichardG s guidance and made a minor modification to the installation media and injected the root rpm package he created into the disc image as well. The installation under VMware was pretty straight forward even though it took a while. Following RichardG s instructions I was able to gain access to the root terminal and change the