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Best Buy Sells Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 28, 2008

“Add another once Windows-only PC distributor to the Linux hit
list. Thanks to the new Asus Eee Laptop, Best Buy, the Richfield,
Minnesota based corporation, is selling Linux on their website (you
can check out the web page here). In 2007, Asus sold over 300,000
copies of the Linux laptop, and they’re predicting that they will
sell several million more this year. The lightweight laptop
featuring a solid state drive has become a darling of the
subnotebook market; with a 7-inch display, 512 mb of memory and the
Linux Xandros operating system, the Eee is popping up everywhere.
Best Buy is selling three versions of the Asus Eee laptop: the
pink, the white, and the galaxy black models…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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