Gnu World Order

Licensing, and how non-open corporations are inadvertently flattering open source. shasum -a256=ad86d45e5c2432ee32ecd7a374d45c4aed2c59f90095687f110160926ae9d5d7

Listener feedback from **beegrrl** about OOP, and **bc** from **ap**. shasum -a256=1e24cdd37505df6233989ff00daacb326cdbeb117991625484f39f1e94f212b3

The journey through the Slackware **ap** software set continues. The **amp** mp3-to-wav converter, **ash** shell, and the **at**, **atq**, **atrm**, **batch** commands. shasum -a256=f65b95bfed82062c9b1d7359147b5bb99eebd75a33bbf6c56081a7df4dce13e9

Thoughts about licensing. Coffee. Then thoughts about Java. shasum -a256=367f10bbc1f174f70d8f80ff566b90895932e1619d699c31df805323fc3d6440

All about troubleshooting audio on Linux. shasum -a256=80c593545cb73ea6865a4a9972bd9b1ca95edd67ae2dfda2cc28e2de3485ceac

**alsa-utils** from the **ap** software series of Slackware. Lots of interesting utilities in this package, including one that enables you to send MIDI signals across your network so you can (for example) connect a USB controller to office office computer and generate sounds on the computer in your studio. shasum -a256=6b88af23d2c137e6f64d11bdd3cd69a89372e9a36a12b0f73085997484a489bf

The **acct** command from the Slackware **ap** software series. shasum -a256=baeb6505c5c941e9c5f3a97f3415c142b1b8e07a1d940a5c37234181352e8f4e

Listener feedback. shasum -a256=3132752526d4bde0d5c747170a176ac0d3ea5ee15fefb0522935e0e686d2d72d

The ending of the **a2ps** package, including **psdiff**, **psbook**, **psmandup**, **psresize**, **psselect**, and **texi2dvi4a2ps**. The greatest mystery is the **showchar** command, which appears to do nothing. Upon further investigation (after recording), it seems that **a2ps** as distributed by Slackware also contains a collection of scripts called **psutils**, which provides **fix***, **ps***, **eps***, ***res**, and **showchar** scripts. The psutils collection is not yet in Slackware-current, so it is possible that it has been dropped from distribution. In the latest psutils sources, **showchar** appears to have been removed. shasum -a256=a419e04fdb5cd7dc50bec11736fc321587f9c043f7137e17cccc2c53578bcd6a

The **ap** software series, starting with the **a2ps** package, containing some useful and some obscure PostScript utils. shasum -a256=d146a2a48fefe2bab9c3bbc60a4ecd7c3739d5035a01d6817d859d271c34c11e

Win conditions in open source shasum -a256=fe885b4fcedf371856d4791d0ebd46e0ebdebd59c4cbdf651912a3af7db3d97f

Holiday bonus episode. shasum -a256=d3883b131dd0ab3bcace8ec8d6d2c40b1a4a65dff1de526ed4825c8198e813f0

**xz** and **zoo** and the end of 2019. shasum -a256=d407c72b677ee3ce9416a7a67e8293f0824df1c09f236df750b2f62d7a4a7545

The **which** and **xfs-progs** from the **a** Slackware package set. shasum -a256=fbaf308ca9f8928d507a1795803207a80038a4aef181f0f424b3b7983e8469e7

Listener feedback. shasum -a256=69cac83097643c39a831d6b95457aef14c52b243a5e15d103f4e66279fac8d24

**wall**, **whereis**, and **write**: the final 3 commands in the util-linux package. shasum -a256=874e1a00578c5a0689c5a02ffe7413c45b8de0b14799db66bfa2419557619ca0

**/usr/bin/u*** of the util-linux package, plus listener feedback. shasum -a256=2c0a54385c0a52613acdcf073dd44fa9341bf23ffc4cb6aae9480fa466927663

Starting and finishing the **t** section of **/usr/bin** from the util-linux package: **tailf** and **taskset** shasum -a256=410204e9cb49d39f2f0b7eeeb441a67b56ccd514dcaef0ef2e23aa8adcf2bde5

Finishing up the **s** section of **/usr/bin** from the util-linux package. This episode covers **script**, **scriptreplay**, **setarch**, **setsid**, and **strings**. shasum -a256=22f86277ff3b9459a82636c5b71404dd696b618e5e2bb3fe5988b2ff914c03c6

An exciting Linux origin story (thanks to Grant), and the **reset** (also called **tset**) and **rev** commands from **util-linux**. shasum -a256=3763188d91b194f34bfc8712ef769ffa23343fcb722cf33e57dd9688df824b8d