Revolution OS
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Revolution OS |
| Original title | Revolution OS |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | JTS Moore |
| script | JTS Moore |
| production | JTS Moore |
| music | Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli |
| camera | JTS Moore |
| cut | JTS Moore |
Revolution OS is a 2001 theatrical documentary that tells the story of GNU / Linux , free software, and the open source movement . The film was shot on location in Silicon Valley on 35 mm film in Cinemascope and contains interviews edited and supplemented by illustrative clips on the evolution of GNU / Linux - with Richard Stallman , Michael Tiemann , Linus Torvalds , Eric S. Raymond , among others , Larry Augustin , Frank Hecker , Brian Behlendorf and Bruce Perens . Directed by JTS Moore.
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The film provides a seamless historical arc of the evolution of GNU / Linux, from its inception - when software was copied on paper tapes for the price of a beer and Bill Gates started writing and proprietary programs in BASIC for microcomputers used by computer hobbyists in the 1970s asked in a bitter letter to buy software instead of barter - up to Richard Stallman and a description of what motivated him to give up his job at MIT and to devote his life to developing free software.
Michael Tiemann explains in the desert how he got a very early version of Stallman's GNU C compiler and developed it further.
Larry Augustin describes at the original location, an American University Campus, as it joins the founded by Stallman 's GNU project and a normal personal computer a powerful Unix - Workstation could build that made him one third of the price of a workstation from Sun Microsystems cost, but twice and how it became VA Linux , whose IPO is also vividly followed in the film.
Brian Behlendorf, one of the original developers of the Apache web server - the most frequently used web server on the Internet - explains very vividly supported by clips how he worked with other web developers who used the NCSA httpd web server, which was then the most widely used at the time, to patch (German: Flicken ) and it finally came to Apache, the a- "patchy" web server (in German: "A patched web server").
Since the film recordings and interviews were made exclusively in Silicon Valley , viewers could get the wrong idea that Linux was practically developed there. Interviews with developers in Europe are missing, but the work documents the most important events in the evolution of GNU / Linux.
Awards
Revolution OS has been shown at various film festivals and won two awards for best documentary at the Savannah Film Festival (October 30th to November 3rd, 2001) and the Kudzu Film Festival (October 11th, 2001).
Film on DVD
The film is available on two DVDs, with the second DVD containing uncut versions of the interviews.
DVD data:
- Region free (Region 0), i.e. it can be played on all DVD players
- not CSS -encrypted,
- Running time of DVD 1 (the cut film): 85 minutes,
- digital stereo surround sound,
- contains an audio track with comments from the filmmaker.
Web links
- Revolution OS website for the film
- Revolution OS in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Article on Pro Linux
- Trailer of the film (19 MB; MPG )