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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday June 11 2017, @10:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the writing-instructions-for-dummies dept.

fit-PC sells a box (the Intense PC) that is rebranded as the MintBox 2, which has Linux Mint preinstalled, with the Linux Mint project getting a cut of the profits.

Clement Lefebvre, the honcho at Linux Mint, notes[1] that the firmware has a security vulnerability which needs to be patched. Hilariously, the manufacturer's instructions call out a MS Windows-only tool.

[1] In the comments there, Clem responds to Kim, saying that Linux Mint has the tools available to get the job done. In the comments attached to a clickbait article at BetaNews, it was mentioned that dd (sometimes referred to as Data Dump), an app that comes with pretty much every Linux distro, will also do the task.


[Ed Note: The vast majority of fit-PC's products also come in Windows flavors. They are NOT a Linux only company. - cmn32480]

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday June 11 2017, @11:48PM (1 child)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Sunday June 11 2017, @11:48PM (#524031)

    Your Mint experience is nothing like mine. I have been using Mint for about 2 years and have never had a problem, with the notable exception of a Bluetooth mouse that stopped working.

    I think I started with version 17.0 and have just upgraded every time a new release happened, so I must be on 18.1 now.

    Linux Mint does everything I need and never causes me problems. Also Cinnamon is a nice desktop.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @12:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @12:15AM (#524041)

    +1 positive mint experience.
    Mint was my introduction to Linux as a desktop OS.
    Coming from Windows, Cinnamon was a very comfortable DTE and matching shortcuts for things like minimising/maximising was nice when doing the boring day to day desktop stuff: browsing the internet, reading email, typing documents. Basically it meant my computer was still a computer while I was relearning how to use it and I didn't have to reboot all the time to get stuff done.
    Certainly it has it's flaws and I can't speak to it's current state, since I haven't used it for some time, but I enjoyed it while I was getting to grips with the Linux world.
    Now my desktops (home and work) and laptop run Debian with i3 as my window manager of choice. So mint gets credit for one full Linux conversion at least