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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @06:22PM (1 child)
Guy charges suckers for an app that anyone with basic knowledge can write in a few minutes. Why the hell people would use such an app in the first place is beyond me, but if anyone pays for it I would be seriously surprised.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @02:27PM
First paid job was fortran astro data analysis over the summer of 1983.
First real - and very complex - C code over the summer of 1983. I was also a project manage for a team of ten coders.
Full time in 1987, salaried in 1988.
Peak hourly contracting pay of $120 in Y2K just before the crash, and authorized to bill as many hours as I damn well pleased.
First Linux install was Yggdrasil in 1984. When Yggdrasil went off the market, I'm pretty sure I installed Patrick's very first Slackware CD.
Highest salary was $130k in 2007.
I've been a coder for thirty years, so I assert that I do have "basic knowledge".
That app would take me a week to write. I invite me to write it better than I possibly could. Let me know when you write your first line of code, and I'll start my iPhone's stopwatch app.
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