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Ukuu, or Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility, a fairly popular unofficial GUI tool for easily installing the latest mainline Linux kernel on Ubuntu-based distributions, has moved to a paid ($11) licensing model with its latest 19.01 release.
Ukuu displays the list of kernels available in the Ubuntu Mainline kernel website, allowing users to easily download and install the desired version. The utility can also remove installed kernels, display the changes in the selected Linux version, display notifications when new kernels are available, and so on.
With the 19.01 release of Ukuu, the application requires a personal license which costs $11, and the source code is no longer available. Tony George, the application developer, notes the reason for this being the lack of donations, with alternatives being stopping the development or requiring a paid license:
"The last version of this app (v18.9) had 60,000 downloads, yet only 12 users have donated over the last 2 years. It was not possible for me to continue working on this application for free, and making it paid seemed like a better alternative than discontinuing the project."
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/01/ubuntu-kernel-update-utility-ukuu-moves.html
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Saturday February 09 2019, @05:36PM (4 children)
Arch has a kernel installer: keep old kernels, install new ones, install experimental ones..... free.
Still using Arch (Manjaro). Still
McLoving it.Sorry... i hate McD's... i LOVE Arch.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @08:10PM (1 child)
Given that manually installing a kernel package, or rolling your own, is trivial also in debian, and the package creates/removes the grub entries. Really don't see the point of a specialized GUI to duplicate a package manager functionality, but I don't see the point of a lot of stuff going on in IT either.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday February 10 2019, @02:55PM
I think it is aimed at those that cannot do anything unless they can point and click.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Saturday February 09 2019, @09:48PM (1 child)
Same over here in PCLinuxOS, built right into the official repository and thus easily accessible via the usual package managers. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure that also applies to every other Linux distro I've used long-term in the past decade... I wonder what the deal is with Ubuntu in this case.
(Score: 2) by dry on Monday February 11 2019, @01:52AM
Sometimes people want the latest or newer (beta) and Ubuntu etc are months or more behind?