I made an animated history of Linux using Claude Code + opus 5.5.
I've been experimenting with a “video as code” workflow - source, prompts, assets, and rendering scripts live in Git, and the final video is a generated artifact.
you can try it out here:
Repo: https://github.com/sujee/visual-stories/tree/main/projects/l... | https://github.com/sujee/visual-stories
Video: https://youtu.be/lkOxEeqwMBo
I'm curious what people think of this approach. Is “video as code” useful beyond experiments like this? Love to hear some feedback and experiences.
thank you!
/? gource Linux: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Gource+Linux
Gource of torvalds/linux [through 2024-12] https://youtube.com/watch?v=kxdOAsDqGhY
History of Linux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux
Booting process of Linux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting_process_of_Linux
Linux kernel version history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_version_history
List of Linux distributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
But software packaging made it all happen;
List of software package management systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_package_manag...
In the 90s, it took a couple floppy disks to install LILO and a kernel and a userspace.
dpkg (1994), pms (1994) -> RPM (1995) -> yum (2002) -> DNF (2012), rpm-ostree with ostree native containers
dpkg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg
RPM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager
DNF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNF_(software)
What about the history of how Linux kernel development and major Linux distro development have been hosted? Patches over 40 KB on mailing lists, build farms, VCS version control systems