canonical: that can be arranged
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
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I need the stl for this stat. I have some blue glow filament.
Mark my words. There will be Linux that does this and it will be the most popular distro.
Don't give Canonical ideas.
Why do you think it would be popular?
Ubuntu pro?
... time to re-boot development on Hannah Montana Linux, it is then...
You DID NOT activate Linux!
wrecking ball crashes through both your desktop, and also random parts of the actual file structure
Ubuntu has that dumb subscription to get security updates that pushed me away. Sure it was free for personal use, but I don't want to have to give my personal information to get updates that are created primarily by volunteer open source developers anyway.
as far as I understand it, they aren't directly from upstream, canonical makes or backports those patches.
that's the whole point, subscribing gets you patches before the devs of the packages do for that version
subscribing gets you patches before the devs of the packages do for that version
Why would anyone want this?
to close security vulnerabilities on their servers faster
Exactly. But the corporations do it because it benefits them more than starting from scratch. They should release all changes to the central repository for all to consume as part of the agreement to get the benefit of the already created software. Not hold onto the patches to give them to their customers and people who pay them with their personal information.
Everything that's in main gets released to everyone with the security fixes. Canonical's security team works on those.
The stuff in the universe repo is owned by the Ubuntu community (not by Canonical), so anyone can submit those fixes, but it depends on the Masters of the Universe, who are all volunteers, to get it upstreamed.
The extra Ubuntu Pro updates for the universe repo come from when someone who's paying for Ubuntu Pro asks Canonical to make a patch. The source is still available to anyone, so someone could take that patch and then submit it to the community who maintains the universe repo.
Once the 5 years of standard support ends, then the only way to get additional fixes is through Ubuntu Pro, but if Canonical writes those fixes they also submit them back upstream (as opposed to if they grab a specific patch from upstream β and even then it's still available on Launchpad regardless.
The reason nobody's made a CentOS but for Ubuntu Pro is that it's way easier to submit the patches through the community (and become part of that community who approves packages) than it is to spin up all the infrastructure that would be needed.
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THIS would have me screaming
Best I can do is:
You must activate Linux within 30 days.
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echo "H4sIAAAAAAAAA1OIJwpw2SgE5KQmFqcqOCaXZJYllqQq+GTmlVYolGeWZGTmKRgbKKQkVhYr2HEp\
6BIFuBSQgEaMviZUQCM+X6EGJqmvgGDHABHULQoIIQjQzEcYp18DNh+hEaiuBirDBQApvkoY7gAAAA==" \
| base64 -d | gzip -dPretty sure I'm not gonna be running anything involving "gzip -d", seems like probably a bad idea, lol.
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is what I got (no, I did not just do that on my PC)
I think your llama's ears are suffering from some kind of malformed whitespace problem.
... guess you better pony up that money for the update that fixes it, lol.
coward, I bet you don't pipe curl into bash either.
Ahah, ah... yeah, yep, uh, you got me, stinkin little coward over here.
But uh hey, I could always try that out on your PC, right big bro?
If I were in charge of a distro I'd push this as an update on April Fools Day
Which is part of why I'd be a bad pick for the position XD
The commit will never be allowedπ
"Microsoft has reached a deal to purchase Linux"
"Linus Torvalds sold his share of Linux to Microsoft for $1.8B"
1.8B is way too cheap for something as big as Linux, hell fucking Minecraft sold for 2B
What a horrifying timeline that would be!
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Please provide your address, email address, phone number, and a scan of your ID card to activate Linux.
Maybe your bank login just in case.
Oh, you have more than 4GB of RAM? Looks like the Linux Starter Edition subscription wonβt be enough for you. Youβll need to upgrade to Linux Pro Home Studio with Copilot Standard for $35 a month
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