Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Ubuntu Linux goes retail
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> | Steve George, director of corporate services for Canonical, announced on
> | a blog that Canonical along with ValuSoft, a U.S. retail software
> | distributor, have paired together to get a boxed version of Ubuntu 8.04
> | into Best Buy retail stores. The retail box contains a "Ubuntu 8.04 CD,
> | a Quick Start Guide and 60 days of support from the ValuSoft team,
> | trained and backed by the Canonical support guys. The support covers
> | installation and getting started using Ubuntu and is priced at $19.99."
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> http://blogs.computerworld.com/ubuntu_linux_goes_retail
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> There goes the FUD that Linux lacks technical support.
Thats fantastic - another distribution channel opened for Linux.
More reasons why WINDUMMY software writers should make sure that their
software is WINE 1.0 compatible or risk being left out as other
companies either port their software to Linux or just allow it to run
WINDUMMY software with hardly any modifications at full speed if not faster
directly in WINE 1.0.
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