Revolution OS, a documentary movie about the Free
Software Movement and the birth of GNU/Linux
Some few years I've watched the
Revolition OS -
documentary movie on the birth and development of Free Software
Movement (FSF) and the history of GNU/Linux.
The movie was inspirational for me in this back days and I should
say leveraged myself in my further development in commitment as a
supporter and user of the Free Software.
For a long time I haven't met another person like Dave who still
keeps the burn of Free Software living, so my fiery for Free
Software has been gone for a while.
Even though I continusly use the Free Software these days I don't
do that much to spread the word about Free Software.
In the couple of days when David was a guest of mine here in the
Netherlands, my enthusiasm for free software has increased once
again thanksfully.
Still it's very likely that the Revolution OS movie haven't
been seen by many people out there who live in the dark slavery of
propritery software.
Thus I write this article to raise my voice again and re-spread the
message of the existence of these great Free Software, Open Source
and GNU/Linux documentary!
If you're among the people hackers, geeks, simple Windows user, a
philosopher, an IT or just a simple man and you still haven't
watched revolition OS now is the time to fill in this big
movie vacancy.
The movie is already 9 years old from the year 2001, but still is
very relevant and gives basic knowledge on GNU is not Unix,
GNU/Linux, The Free Software movement, The Birth of the Apache
project.
The usage of Linux on the Internet webservers etc. ,etc. What makes
the movie even more worthy is the numerous talks of Richard
Stallman, who as a friend of mine said "Richard Stallman is
probably the Greatest philosopher of our times"
Besides that the movie also includes numerous major people who
plays key role in Information Technology in the last 20+
years.
It also gives a bit of history about UNIX and the Linux
Kernel.
The notable geeks, programmers, hackers and IT experts name that
are interviewer are:
Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry
Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian
Behlendorf
In that thought I should say this movie is an absolutely must see
for every computer enthusiast out there! :)
The movie shows also shows a quick review of the old times Redhat
Company offices and talks a bit about RedHat Linux who was a
major Linux distribution in the back days and actually was the
first Linux distribution, that gave me a glimpse on what is
Linux.
Therefore I think this movie besides the accurate facts presented
has a great computer historical value.
The movie is available for watching directly via youtube, however
it is not freely available for download, which is a bit strange
considering the fact that it promotes free software culture.
Anyways one can always download the whole movie from major torrent
trackers.
If you're lazy to download the movie from some torrent tracker you
can watch Revolition OS movie directly below:
Enjoy! :)