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- Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement.
Directed by J. T. S. Moore, the film features interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs including Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf.
Synopsis
The film begins with glimpses of Raymond, a Linux IPO, Torvalds, the idea of Open Source, Perens, Stallman, then sets the historical stage in the early days of hackers and computer hobbyists when code was shared freely. It discusses how change came in 1978 as Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, in his Open Letter to Hobbyists, pointedly prodded hobbyists to pay up. Stallman relates his struggles with proprietary software vendors at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, leading to his departure to focus on the development of free software, and the GNU Project.
Torvalds describes the development of the Linux kernel, the GNU/Linux naming controversy, Linux's further evolution, and its commercialization.
Raymond and Stallman clarify the philosophy of free software versus communism and capitalism, as well as the development stages of Linux.
Michael Tiemann discusses meeting Stallman in 1987, getting an early version of Stallman's GCC, and founding Cygnus Solutions.
Larry Augustin describes combining GNU software with a normal PC to create a Unix-like workstation at one third the price and twice the power of a Sun workstation. He relates his early dealings with venture capitalists, the eventual capitalization and commodification of Linux for his own company, VA Linux, and its IPO.
Brian Behlendorf, one of the original developers of the Apache HTTP Server, explains that he started to exchange patches for the NCSA web server daemon HTTPd with other developers, which led to the release of "a patchy" web server, dubbed Apache.
Frank Hecker of Netscape discusses the events leading up to Netscape's executives releasing the source code for Netscape's browser, one of the signal events which made open source a force to be reckoned with by business executives, the mainstream media, and the public at large. This point was validated further after the film's release as the Netscape source code eventually became the Firefox web browser, reclaiming a large percentage of market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
The film also documents the scope of the first full-scale LinuxWorld Summit conference, with appearances by Linus Torvalds and Larry Augustin on the keynote stage.
Much of the footage for the film was shot in Silicon Valley.
Screenings
The film appeared in several film festivals including South by Southwest, the Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Boston Film Festival, and Denver International Film Festival; it won Best Documentary at both the Savannah Film and Video Festival and the Kudzu Film Festival.
Casting :
Self - Creator, Linux Kernel : Linus Torvalds
Self - Founder, GNU Project : Richard Stallman
Self - Author : Eric Raymond
Self - Author, Open Source Definition : Bruce Perens
Self - Co-Founder, CEO, VA Linux Systems : Larry Augustin
Self - Co-Founder, Cygnus Solutions : Michael Tiemann
Self : Brian Behlendorf
Self - Former Netscape Systems Engineer : Frank Hecker
Self (Windows Refund Day Scene) : Chris DiBona
Self (Windows Refund Day Scene) : Nick Moffitt
Self (On Inflatable Couch) : Rob Malda
Self - Employee, Red Hat Software : Donnie Barnes
Narrator(voice) : Susan Egan
Self (Silicon Valley Linux Users' Group President) : Marc Merlin
Self : Terry Egan
Self : Lisa Corsetti
Self : David Ljung
Self : José Medeiros
Subtitles : Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Turk - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Merci! 🙏👍❤
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Our screens are not made for this format.
Otherwise, what did you think of the documentary ?
@@tvarchive7927 I loved the doc. I already watched it a lot of times. I even talked to the director by email once about selling the moviehere in Brazil. I am searching for a true 480p or 720p video resolution.
@@tvarchive7927 this is one of the most important documentaries about the open source movement
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A quick look back at the videos I saw the day before yesterday, this may surprise you, but I prefer Revolution OS, I learned a lot of things including the history of GNU born at the end of the 70s and active in the 80s, this coincidence that Richard Stallman had planned to work on a kernel only at the end of his project, right at the time that Linus Torvalds released his in 1991, and that the compiler used was precisely from the GNU project.
There is also this interesting point between the movement at the start of Free Software, and later Open-Source (which required rewriting a new GPL version initially made by Richard Stallman) with companies going public and this little word from Torvalds through the excitement of Larry Augustin (Co-founder, CEO, VA Linux Systems):
I remember Linus patting me on the back and saying, "Come on, 'Relax...' and it was amazing to see that." : th-cam.com/video/errB71uSYLc/w-d-xo.html
Even more surprising, in Codename - Linux, we hear Torvalds say that he felt it was the right time, a year before it would have hit the mark, and one later someone would have released something similar, he was talking by Stallman !
The source comes from the DVD that I bought on EBay, but it can be found in Torrent: archive.org/details/revolution.os
I recommend that you take those in FFV1, it is a format without any loss: archive.org/download/revolution.os/Revolution.OS.2001.DVDRip.HEVC.AC3-LiNUX/
On the download side, it's faster in torrent, the file is included in the parent folder.