Upon seeing the news that Ubuntu was being sold in Best Buys for $20, I decided to go down to my local Best Buy and see what the box looked like and where it was.

The placement was fine, not great, not bad. It was no where near the big display of Vista, which is too bad. Instead, it was placed a few shelves under the few remaining boxes of Windows XP. While the placement could have been better, I don’t blame Best Buy at all. It would be surprising if it was displayed as well as Vista.

On the packaging side, I was very impressed. The package is sold by ValuSoft and is very good at marketing Ubuntu. Some of my favorite quotes from the box are listed below:

• “Unable to run Windows? Ubuntu is for you!”
• “The end of: -Spyware -Viruses -Crashes -Wasted Time”

In addition, there was a big table of all the software included with Ubuntu. I was also interested to see that it comes with 60 days of support, apparently from ValuSoft, though they might just be contracting Canonical.

And, of course, I took some pictures: