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Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How does Canonical make money anyway? It's been going for like two decades now...

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It appears to be mostly commercial or industry support type stuff and licensing fees for servers.

https://medium.com/@bokiko/ubuntu-is-free-but-the-company-behind-it-made-292-million-last-year-213c3ab5351a

[–] xSikes@feddit.online 9 points 3 days ago

Ubuntu Pro is a big one. FIPS 140-3 compliance for enterprise and gov/defense