elementary OS project users who signed up through GitHub Sponsors for $50 per month, once a month option from leading developers personal assistance in solving their issues. At the same time, if the solution requires more than 1 hour, then the developers will only write a conclusion and express gratitude for sponsoring.
Up to this point, elementary OS has been monetized in the following ways:
- Selling the image of the distribution on a pay-what-you-want basis. For the purchase, you can select any amount, including zero (at the same time, zero is not explicitly mentioned in the download form, and the button is called "Buy" and is replaced by "Download" only when you enter zero in the input form, which can ).
- Selling native curated apps in the same way. At the same time, 30% elementary LLC, and 70% to the app developer.
- “Voting” with money for the solution of an Issue on the platform .
- Campaigns on crowdfunding sites. of which was devoted to the next round of improvements to the AppCenter marketplace: improving privacy and stability, reorienting from DEB to Flatpak, creating a personal account to save payment methods and purchase history, and making the store more accessible to other distributions. Campaign ended , but the epidemic thwarted the developers' plans to organize a face-to-face hackathon. Instead, the team is gradually implementing the opportunities planned as part of the campaign in .
- Financial support from System76, a manufacturer of Linux computers and developer of the Pop!_OS distribution. This has been mentioned in at least about release 5.1.
- Collection of "classic" donations through и .
Note that the distribution , positioned as a fast, open and privacy-respecting alternative to Windows and macOS. The main focus of the project is on quality design, aimed at creating an easy-to-use system that consumes minimal resources and provides high startup speed. Users are offered their own Pantheon desktop environment.
The original Elementary OS components are developed using GTK3, the Vala language, and the proprietary Granite framework. As the basis of the distribution, the developments of the Ubuntu project are used. The graphical environment is based on its own Pantheon shell, which combines components such as the Gala window manager (based on LibMutter), the WingPanel top panel, the Slingshot launcher, the Switchboard control panel, the bottom taskbar (an analogue of the Docky panel rewritten in Vala) and the Pantheon Greeter session manager (based on LightDM).
The environment includes a set of applications tightly integrated into a single environment that are necessary to solve user problems. Among the applications, most of them are the project's own developments, such as the Pantheon Terminal emulator, the Pantheon Files file manager, a text editor and Music (Noise) music player. The project also develops the photo manager Pantheon Photos (an offshoot of Shotwell) and the email client Pantheon Mail (an offshoot of Geary).
Source: opennet.ru