Best Buy Offers Ubuntu With OpenOffice

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sun, 07/13/2008 - 19:45

Popular electronics retailer Best Buy now has Ubuntu Linux version 8.04, known as Hardy Heron, available for sale for $19.99 along with additional open source software.

Best Buy hopes working with Canonical will help expand the use of Ubuntu Linux to a new crowd it hopes is ready for Linux.


 

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