Just wanted to give everyone the latest. As you may remember, I wrote an article about my discovery that apparently Ubuntu was being sold at Best Buy via Valuesoft. I had expressed concerns as to the legitimacy of this and decided to just by the CD myself. After all, it is currently be sold in Best Buy stores all over the US.

As you can see from the image, it is indeed Canonical certified - this is the real deal, so nothing shady was going on at all. Valuesoft actually did a great job with the packaging, very new PC user friendly. Those of you who are interested in seeing what this looks like and how Best Buy is treating this new offering to their stores, tune in live tomorrow. There will not be a chat as I lack a chat moderator, however I will be taking email questions for the show and during. If all goes well, I will then post the video to my YouTube account.

What was funny is when the $20 something CD set the alarm off at Best Buy and the doorman de-tagged it to prevent the alarm from going off again, he made the funniest comment. “Wow! I had no idea we were selling this?” My response was that it is still a work in progress for many, but has been a good friend to me personally. So when I found that I could support the first retail outreach for this distro, I jumped at the chance.