Promotional poster for two disc edition of Revolution OS

Revolution OS is a documentary which traces the history of GNU, Linux, Free Software and the Open Source movement. It also mentions BSD (Berkeley Unix) as another free operating system under development. It features several interviews with prominent hackers, including Linus Torvalds, Richard M Stallman, Eric S. Raymond, Brian Behlendorf and Bruce Perens. It was directed by J.T.S. Moore. Image File history File links This is a copyrighted poster. ... Image File history File links This is a copyrighted poster. ... A documentary is a work in a visual or auditory medium presenting political, scientific, social, or historical subjects in a factual and informative manner. ... The GNU logo, drawn by Etienne Suvasa GNU is a recursive acronym for GNUs Not Unix. The GNU project was announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman with the goal of creating a complete UNIX-compatibleoperating system -- called the GNU system or simply GNU -- that is free software, meaning that... Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ... The Free Software Movement began in 1983 when Richard Stallman announced the GNU project. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Hacker is a term used to describe different types of computer experts. ... Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is best known for initiating the development of the Linux Operating System. ... Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS; born March 16, 1953) is the founder of the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. ... Eric S. Raymond Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957) (often referred to by his initials, ESR) is the author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and the present maintainer of the Jargon File (also known as The New Hackers Dictionary). Though the Jargon File established his original reputation... Brian Behlendorf (Born March 30, 1973) is one of the most respected leaders of the international open_source software movement. ... Bruce Perens Bruce Perens is a prominent figure in the open source movement and to some extent in the free software movement. ...

The film appeared in several film festivals including South By Southwest Film Festival, the Atlanta Film & Video Festival, Boston Film Festival, and Denver International Film Festival; it won Best Documentary at both the Savannah Film & Video Festival and the Kudzu Film Festival.

The second DVD of the two-disc special edition, created by ThinkGeek, contains uncut versions of the interviews. DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... ThinkGeek is an online store, part of the Open Source Technology Group. ...

A write-in campaign to Wonderview Productions, copyright holders of Revolution OS, to get them to donate the uncut interviews to Archive.org is underway. Internet Archive, San Francisco The Internet Archive (archive. ...

External links

• Revolution OS website
• imdb entry which lists the actors
• imdb filmography of ESR, which lists other Linux and hacker documentaries
• at thinkgeek.com