Revolution OS

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 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 with other developers, which led to the release of "a patchy" webserver, 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.[1] 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.
INTERVIEW SUBJECT'S BIOS:
LINUS TORVALDS
In 1991 Torvalds created the Linux kernel (the unifying program for a Unix-like operating system) at age twenty-one while enrolled at the University of Helsinki in his native Finland.
RICHARD STALLMAN
Stallman founded the GNU Project in 1984 in an attempt to create his own Unix-like operating system that was freely shareable. He also started the Free Software movement to espouse his political agenda of freely-shared intellectual property. Stallman's philosophical and technical work became the foundation for Linux and the Open Source movement.
BRUCE PERENS
Perens authored the Open Source definition and currently works as an Open Source evangelist for Hewlett-Packard.
ERIC RAYMOND
Raymond authored the paper "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" which brought outside attention and understanding to the sociological underpinnings of the Open Source movement.
BRIAN BEHLENDORF
Behlendorf is one of the original co-developers of the Apache Web Server. Apache is the most commonly used web server in the world with almost 60% of the market. Apache was the first "killer app" for Linux.
MICHAEL TIEMANN
In 1989 Tiemann co-founded the first company based upon the GNU Project technology and principles of the Free Software movement. Tiemann is currently the CTO of Redhat Software, the most prominent Linux company.
LARRY AUGUSTIN
Augustin co-founded VA Linux Systems, one of the first companies based upon the Linux operating system. VA Linux Systems was a key early supporter of Linux and the Open Source movement. VA Linux System also set the record for the highest opening price for and IPO. On December 9, 1999, its first trade was at $299 per share. Currently, the stock trades around $5 per share.
FRANK HECKER
Hecker is a former Netscape systems engineer that authored a key internal white paper that advocated Netscape releasing its source code to the public.
ROB MALDA
Malda (a.k.a. CmdrTaco) is the editor of the famous hacker website Slashdot.
MARC MERLIN
Merlin is the president of Silicon Valley Linux Users Group.

[@Nate-dz8wq]

The toilet exploding in the Red Hat office apartment was an an unexpected turn. 10/10, will watch again

[@TomStrahle]

I remember playing on the scoring session for this documentary. If I remember correctly every song was in 7/8.

[@nonenothingnull]

Bless you

[@gmestanley2214]

You rock.

[@ioweiowe]

Really interesting! As a child of the 70's, somehow Linux, Free Software and the GNU movement passed me by. I see now how ignorant I was. So inspirational.

[@zfoxfire]

I grew up in the 90s and used linux for the first time but i did not know of what kind of war was going on behind this cool new OS I stumbled upon in a computer magazine.

[@vnkanat]

16:50 "I have gone a job interview and started asking them about what tools they used, and they said 'we used bison++' and I said 'Oh, I am author of bison++'..." That's cool

[@cocorico128]

Stallman, not Apple is why 1984 wasn't 1984.

[@herodionhartono8790]

I'm genuinely sad how the icon of software liberation in popular culture is an egotistical control freak CEO who made some of the most locked-down software and hardware there was, and not the person who re-wrote an operating software just so he can start the most important movement in tech.

[@gmestanley2214]

@@herodionhartono8790 I think the reason for that is that Apple paved the way for openness and most importantly software freedom with the Apple II, with one of the first open architectures. But that wasn't a Jobs decision; Steve Wozniak was making every decision that went through with the II. Stallman saw the problems of back then and carved the path for us completely.

[@janan100]

Hi Von, thanks for sharing ..I wish they could have mentioned Pat (slackware maintainer) in this documentary as he is the man maintaining the oldest Linux distro.

[@TheMessanger]

Is being 9 years and thanks for the tip; I keep this as a legendary classic so I don' need to save the video as long is here in his youtube channel.

[@pr0p3r99]

9 years later and the madman still is out there releasing new major version updates. Incredible dedication by great people.

[@TheMessanger]

@@pr0p3r99 yeah the PUSSYOS versión is assmazimg

[@EximiusDux]

This documentary was made in 2001... time flies and how much Linux yas changed.

[@NOWABO]

I can finally understand Bill Gates Vs. Steve Jobs ERB.

[@GihanKavinda.]

our campus lecturer recommend to watch this video . i am from SLIIT .

[@pandasticus]

Gonna use this opportunity to give a shoutout to my boys from the Solus project. Everyone should try Solus OS, it's the best desktop distro.

[@superslime16th]

LFS for the win (jk)

[@Jordan-hz1wr]

It's interesting how the GNU GPL differs from a BSD license. GPL forces you to give back any changes, while BSD puts no restrictions whatsoever on you.

[@superslime16th]

i think forcing to give back changes is called copyleft

[@rsupp]

It's called Copyleft. Please watch from 18:51 mark: "Richard wrote GPL license (Linus Torvalds uses GPL too), one of the few software licenses written from the standpoint of COMMUNITY rather than from the standpoint of protecting a company as is the case with MIT and BSD license PERFORMING THE GOALS OF A Government Grant Program."

[@tejas8211]

an exceptionally well documentary !

[@eugrus]

Linus always sounds passive-agressive 😄

[@FLMKane]

He's from Finland. Look up Kimi Raikkonnen if you want more Finnish passive-aggresion Pundit: "Why did you go to the award ceremony" Kimi: "I was taking a shit"

[@Kaewin5510]

Linus seems like such a great dad.

[@hhskladby1596]

They are all so good, clear minded speakers

[@realdomdom]

So if you're reading this, when will YOU start the next revolution?

[@realdomdom]

Lucas Romanenko Well, thanks to that i certainly know what you are.

[@LucasRomanenko]

And what would that be?

[@realdomdom]

ice born I dunno. More to the question, When are you going to?

[@TheMessanger]

+real domdom ANDROID BRO! shh!! this is part of the X archives!!

[@TheMessanger]

+andrew vavrek listen!!! you got taste bro... tryad "listen"

[@drewbocop]

Thank you for the upload

[@Combine1331]

At first it was revolution with Linux, now is Evolution! It gets better as ages - now like windows that is crappy with every next release !

[@nonenothingnull]

And soonly it'll devolve

[@brentmcdonald3090]

Great show to watch.

[@abhyaskanaujia3862]

That man took the time to not just name but explain all of that and you guys just cut it off of final production >:( 13:48

[@jakobw135]

And what is the ANSWER to Bill Gates's complaint about free and open software?

[@xplinux22]

Long time Arch Linux user over here. ^_^

[@killmeh2]

Ofcourse first comment I see is arch linux user telling me he uses arch. Vegans of IT world

[@lilythebluespheresfan2897]

Winux MiNT

[@AceTrainerBanjo]

I'm watching this documentary as part of college course on Linux systems (technically called Unix I). I went down a rabbit hole and now I'm watching this on my Arch system that used to be a Windows system! I use Arch btw!

[@brian4480]

6:00 keylogger not invented yet...SO HE JUST WINGED IT. WIN!!!!

[@abhyaskanaujia3862]

I wish this was in hindi so that I could show it to my dad. I notice that he doesn't likes my ways. He is over-anti-altruistic.

[@superslime16th]

consider making a translation of it yourself and uploading it for others (im not forcing you or saying that you are lazy for not doing it, just an idea)

[@jakobw135]

It sounds like the MONOLITHIC KERNEL DESIGN is more efficient and less problematic.

[@DNFINST]

Linus: "the OS never does anything on its own..." Windows 11: "I serve ads without being told to by the user!"

[@ceestimmerman9785]

1:04:12 - How does ESR enforce licenses?

[@knpstrr]

Here is a noob question...what causes the lines of code to increase so greatly, 20,000 to 100,000, to 800,000 lines. Is it just built in support for more hardware, drivers and such?

[@jacquelynfischer611]

Lines of code teach the computer how to act in environments. Lines of code isn't a great measure of software itself, but does show the time put into creating the program and does give you an idea of the progression. Think beyond hardware and the drivers for it... the drivers that download are their own code but there's also code on the computer that allows your computer to understand how to read and download the drivers. In fact, any application, plugin, even connections to the internet or something like the clock feature on your computer- all run by code.

[@knpstrr]

@@jacquelynfischer611 From the aspect of the kernel isn't "teach the computer how to act in environments" mean how to respond to various hardware it may encounter?

[@anmol3457]

@@knpstrr yes, that is an overly simplistic definition, but yes.

[@nonenothingnull]

Hardware manufacturers make dumb decisions indistinct of how there are generics or better drivers than what they'd write up in the limited time they even care to do so.

[@craig9910]

Eric Raymond looks like Quazimodo

[@povray8039]

1:18:49 "Former Internet Exec Says Online Pursuit of Girl Was Role-Playing" lol wut

[@ALinuxed]

Hats off! Bravo!

[@Toocurplants]

All the men and their silly fights. Hope stallman still cares about bettering the society

[@pdiddles03]

wow, great great video.

[@shaguftaperveen5962]

Eric Raymond lost his shit in communism

[@hi_arav]

He's a staunch US Libertarian Party supporter. "Coerce me? I SAY NAY!"

[@YouSSTheMacOSXWannabe]

THANKS

[@fromatic2]

linux didnt take over the personal desktop space it took over the mobile space

[@XenGi]

and the server space, and cloud, and appliances, and basically everything else. except the desktop.

[@sigmaupsilon3768]

If you want liberal, populist AI, social media applications beyond the closed source code and profit understanding of companies like Windows, Google, Microsoft, Apple we need new Revolution OSs and philosophies that contradict capitalism

[@Skrapeg0at]

TL;DR: Install Gentoo!

[@princezamunda5204]

Personally don't use Gentoo, use different distro, but LOL :D

[@711tornado]

I prefer Kali, and Ubuntu

[@netyaroze1663]

@Tornado711 lol.

[@vincentcandela1894]

kali is the best!!

[@hi_arav]

$ sudo --force you --to-install parrot-sec-os

[@jakobw135]

How could you LEGALLY WRITE an OS that is LIKE Unix, without first making sure that you are not violating THE PATENT of that OS?

[@princezamunda5204]

That Bill Gates 'rant', tho :)

[@MalloriDan]

Haha, I was like ohhh, so this was the beginning of why so many people dislike Bill Gates

[@woodywoodlstein9519]

I dont know much about Linux. It’s probably time I learn. Personally I think qnx from rim will takeover the world someday. Real time os just makes sense to me. Thoughts ?

[@chelonianegghead274]

There's RTLinux which is basically Linux adapted to work as an RTOS (real-time operating system).

[@woodywoodlstein9519]

Chelonian Egghead essentially that is what qnx is right ?

[@chelonianegghead274]

No, QNX is a proprietary UNIX system. (I think). It will never be popular on desktop, because RTOS's are meant for embedded systems.

[@woodywoodlstein9519]

Chelonian Egghead Linux is Unix. Isnt it?

[@woodywoodlstein9519]

Chelonian Egghead that’s what I meant. Qnx will run all of the important cant fail stuff. Leave the other stuff to ms and Android.

[@sigmaupsilon3768]

Anarchist, socialist, individual libertarian minded people are not your enemies Your greatest friends

[@deviantsemicolon618]

This is what bothers me about open source, and specifically how people view it. We live in a society where freedom is widely considered to be a good thing. Freedom is a popular idea. Free software could easily be a unifying issue, even in corporate America. Democrats hate corporations, Republicans hate the government and big tech. Free software refutes all of those things. We just need enough mainstream attention. Real mainstream attention.

[@fijnevent3565]

Anarchists,,libertarians I agree. Socialists want to extort

[@JNPR_STYX]

I'm watching this from Linux Mint on a dual-boot laptop.

[@JNPR_STYX]

+The Core Gamers #linux #opensource #gnu

[@computerscientist5953]

+The Core Gamers windows 10 rulez

[@rayhan2884]

+Protoss Zerg LMAO

[@drewbocop]

+The Core Gamers I'm watching this from an Arch Linux - Windows 7 Enterprise dual-boot desktop. Arch linux rulez

[@algo6103]

+The Core Gamers Cool story bro. Tell me more.

[@VladBurlutsky]

Amazing stuff!Long live Linux!

[@imichael77m77]

Watch it for ICT guys

[@snowboredsnj]

What ever happened to that guy Bill Gates?

[@wssnwwssloswysvwewww]

+snowboredsnj He is the richest guy in the world and the second biggest philanthropist ever.

[@GrayDaDolf]

@@wssnwwssloswysvwewww Jeff Bezos moment

[@uncommonsensor]

@@wssnwwssloswysvwewww he's giving out jabs

[@JayDee-b5u]

Still snaking

[@san3523]

good video...

[@WarrenJay]

so this guy is pretty much the jesus of software

[@axlslak]

that's exactly what he is. but we go about and pretend he isn't. that's the going gag. ?! personally, I'm not in the gag. I care about linus and richard. these guys changed the world. and there is no statue for them. and there should be. HUGE ONES.

[@spacecowboy7740]

ubuntu reporting in.

[@shanes.6227]

+space cowboy >ubuntu and you call yourself a real linux user. jk

[@spacecowboy7740]

+Shane S. that was some quality bantz. love you, cutie ♥

[@shanes.6227]

+space cowboy O_o

[@doragonmeido]

Timeline: - elementary os - Ubuntu - kali *Few years later I was still a beginner till that* - something vlight forgot the name - lubuntu - arch Linux - openSUSE - Debian - solus - manjaro - lubuntu - pop OS - arch Linux till now... . Had a pretty fun time hopping through distros..

[@unvisible805]

richard stallman was so skinny!

[@No-uw3ry]

Microsoft's stock is up 1,700% since this documentary was released. I wonder who won?

[@MalloriDan]

Oh, so this when people really started to dislike Bill Gates…I see it😅

[@maxvdub96]

Good film :DDDD

[@totodile493]

Honestly, you would be a god if you could dedicate yourself to do that.

[@NitinRNtini]

This reminds me of Steve Wozniak.

[@scarletolive7041]

Solus say Hi ! )

[@hndutube]

OSEK anyone? ;)

[@theticofacous]

plus 1 for rhyming in a language you don't know

[@cgungryfcdjs1352]

This movie is very old. Why is this post so new?

[@linuxwithattitude6668]

It's called a video, it allows us to view material that was recorded in the past.

[@davegsux]

better late than never 🤷

[@axlslak]

Linux is not more popular because it is the chess of operating systems. There's a saying: Unix is user-friendly - it's just choosy about who its friends are. It's not linux's fault. It's people fault. The lack of imagination and knowledge. People still live under the impression that a gui is more powerful than the console.

[@lilythebluespheresfan2897]

We live amongst NPC's

[@therealpaddyp]

@@lilythebluespheresfan2897 amen

[@pakoti96]

Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems to me that GNU is what would be called a distribution of linux.

[@benswanson4807]

Peter DD GNU/Linux and Linux are different things.

[@pakoti96]

Ben Swanson That's not much of an insight you're giving me lol.

[@benswanson4807]

Linux is just the Kernel. Where GNU is a Unix Operating Syestem.

[@benswanson4807]

Although GNU and the Linux Kernel often work together in a distro

[@benswanson4807]

Hope that clarified :)

[@kuzurame]

we?

[@wau-l9]

the thing is, if they wrote something for hobby computers that makes the computers not require programming knowledge, then why would you have computers as your hobby? It's pointless. Computers are best for programming

[@crashover6711]

translations plis only undstand portugueses -.-'

[@revengerwizard]

Red Hat didn’t age so well…

[@aguswibawa7355]

any gentoo users over here ?

[@angrydoto1488]

Best part "Bill Gates Open Letter". And now you can download Windows 10 for free or ????

[@algo6103]

+Angry Doto Windows 10 is free of cost for the time being, but the code is not free. The code is not open source.

[@algo6103]

Specifically what parts of the Win 10 OS is open? I would like to look at the code. I am talking about the OS keep in mind.

[@algo6103]

Dude all that writing for nothing.You're stupid. Chakra is not part of the OS and neither is the .NET Framework. Learn what an OS is idiot.

[@angrydoto1488]

I like you!!! Good points...

[@trollsthatlol1]

Free package of crap

[@AdamBalan]

Richard Stallman is now the disgrace of Software, specifically OSS - LOL

[@av4010]

totally not a cult

[@sigmaupsilon3768]

Capitalist richs, religious and liberals alike, against capitalism at individual freedom and need ideas that are aim to benefit society Its a contradiction, and this contradiction serves a need in human nature We are all human