How did we get from shareware to free software? We jump in the Linux powered time machine and revisit software past.

Plus a new Plasma focused laptop, and two powerful command-line picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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• MarsCat is a Bionic Cat Powered by Raspberry Pi 3 (Crowdfunding)
• Kubuntu Focus Offers The Most Polished KDE Laptop Experience We’ve Seen Yet - Phoronix
• Kubuntu Focus
• Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release | Windows Command Line
• The happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work | Drew DeVault’s Blog
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• Shareware on Wikipedia
• The Origin of Shareware
• Computer Chronicles: Shareware
• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
• Play DOOM Online
• PC-SIG Library (12th Edition) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Revolution OS: a 2001 documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement
• Broot: Get an overview of a directory, even a big one
• Tizonia: cloud music from the linux terminal