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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @08:56AM
Yes, and that's a bootable FreeDOS image containing both the BIOS image and the (DOS) tools to write it. The only Windows tool mentioned is one to write the image to the stick. Linux comes with the ability out of the box, so no third-party tool is needed there.