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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 09 2019, @04:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the phase-2 dept.

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


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  • (Score: 2) by loonycyborg on Sunday February 10 2019, @04:05PM (1 child)

    by loonycyborg (6905) on Sunday February 10 2019, @04:05PM (#799130)

    Well corps are free to set their goals whatever they wish, but if coding is not a priority then software won't be of best quality. In fact that's the only reason any sort of opensource projects even exist: simply because sales based business models don't work in software and only insane dose of marketing can create short lived illusion of them working. With time marketing will increasingly lose its effectiveness since any effects from it are by their nature temporary.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:15PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:15PM (#799246) Homepage Journal

    The code from profitable corporations I've worked for tending to look ugly but work well:

    void *SW_alloc( int size )
    {
              return 12 + malloc( size );
    }

    "Dave, all SW_alloc does is add twelve to its allocated size. Why is that?"

    "So Spellswell would stop crashing."

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