Best Buy Offers Ubuntu Linux With OpenOffice
17 Jul 2008 - 09:42:06

By Charles Babcock Thu Jul 10, 6:50 PM ET Best Buy is offering the Hardy Heron version of Ubuntu, a version of which for three years has gotten the highest distribution numbers on . The Best Buy chain of home and business electronics and appliances is a new outlet for the popular consumer Linux. The Best Buy CD is available for $19.99 and includes other software. It's been priced at a near match to the $17.97 for which it's available through , including shipping. What's Best Buy is offering is Ubuntu 8.04, also known as the Hardy Heron release, which became available on April 24. Best Buy started selling Ubuntu Hardy Heron on May 6 but it is not a featured offering and a search of the Best Buy for Hardy Heron will return 371 items, including a "The Best of Gil Scott-Heron" CD and the Laurel & Hardy Collection DVD. A search for Ubuntu or Linux brings up the $19.99 package. It's the only Linux offered by Best Buy. The Best Buy version is packaged by ValuSoft, a division of THQ Inc. in Chaska, Minn. ValuSoft is a game and business distributor. Best Buy is based in Richfield, Minn. The ValuSoft package is a "complete edition" of Ubuntu, meaning it comes with desktop productivity applications and Evolution email and calendar, along with other open utilities and applications. Ubuntu is a version of Linux produced by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth's firm, Canonical, headquartered in London. Ubuntu came out of the work of the Shuttleworth Foundation...

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