Revolution OS

[slave]

Has anyone heard of the linux documentary film "Revolution OS?"  I watched the 8 minute preview at ifilm.com and it was very interesting.  Those of you with mplayer can just enter this on the command line to watch:

mplayer http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/media/media_wmp_asx/0,4601,2421280_200_2457289_stream_____,00.asx

I want to watch the rest of it, but I don't live near any of the theaters it's being shown at!  Is there a way to order a tape or dvd?

[voidmain]

I haven't seen the movie but I believe the subject came up in an earlier thread on these forums. But it might just as well have been on another forum. I recall mixed reviews, more negative, I could be wrong...

[preacher]

Well one night I was watching the Sundance channel and there it was. A very interesting flick indeed. I now know how to pronounce Linux, GNU, Linus Torvalds, and other terms the right way. It showed how redhat became the first big linux company, and told the tale of sco linux, a company I never knew about until I watched the flick.

[voidmain]

SCO Linux is an extremely recent thing. Could it have been SCO UNIX that they were referring to or both? I am pretty sure that SCO Linux is nothing more than Caldera. Correct me if I am wrong but in the recent past Caldera bought out SCO and then used SCO as the front name. I used to use SCO UNIX on several machines a few years back. Nasty, nasty, nasty. I hated it.

[ December 05, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[preacher]

lol, sorry, I was confused, I meant VA linux, not sco linux. Small mistake.

[voidmain]

Ah, good old VA-Linux. I had a few of their machines too. Too bad they had to get out of the hardware business.

[Calum]

for those of us who are not going to be getting broadband any time soon, how can we download said movie into a usable format?

any ideas?

[KernelPanic]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
for those of us who are not going to be getting broadband any time soon, how can we download said movie into a usable format?

any ideas?

Short of watching at at work or at a friends house, I don't know...

[KernelPanic]

quote:   Thank you for inquiring about REVOLUTION OS.  We are currently
   planning to release the VHS videotape (NTSC) and special edition DVD
   in mid-October through select online retailers such as Amazon.com and
   ThinkGeek.  The retail price will probably be between $23 and $26 USD
   plus shipping and tax.

   REVOLUTION OS will be released Region-Free to ensure worldwide DVD
   player compatibility, and will be available through online retailers
   to customers outside of the U.S.A.  For the time being, all
   international sales will be through online retailers.

   The special edition DVD will include extras features such as
   additional interview footage with Linux Torvalds, Richard Stallman,
   and Brian Behlendorf, deleted scenes, a director's audio commentary,
   trailers, a still image gallery, and a music video for "The Free
   Software Song."  I will try and let you know when REVOLUTION OS
   becomes available.

   You are correct that REVOLUTION OS has never been screened in the UK.
   I would love to remedy that situation.

   You can check out the trailer and first 8 minutes of REVOLUTION OS on
   ifilm:
   http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/product/film_multimedia/0,4470,2419320,00.html

   Sincerely,

   J.T.S. Moore
   Director, REVOLUTION OS

I found that online ^. But looking on amazon.com and co.uk and thinkgeek, I could not see it at all. Guess we might just have to wait.

[Calum]

having seen the first 8 minutes, i would be interested to buy the full thing as a DVD. if anybody hears any further info on this, could they please post it? thanks.

also, isn't .asx a proprietary microsoft format? considering the content of the firt 8 minutes i find that is well past ironic.

edit - aha! the internet told me to look at the file as a text file and doing so revealed that the true url for the movie is:

mms://wm.ifilm.na-central.speedera.net/wm.ifilm.na-central/portal/2421280_200.asf

which shows that it's a .asf microsoft proprietary file format. the .asx file can point to mpeg files and such as well though, so cannot be truly thought of as proprietary.

[ December 05, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]