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, @09:24PM (1 child)
cannot be used easily from a desktop environment
Your exception actually means that a commandline invoked executable are very easy to use from a desktop environment, with the commandline switches it is in fact often easier than hunting through ever increasing levels of menus with a mouse. This is especially true if you are using something like fish or zsh as your terminal instead of bash/dash because of their smart autocomplete.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday June 12 2017, @09:53PM
*sh are not terminals, but shells. Terminals (or rather, terminal emulators) are xterm, konsole and Gnome-Terminal.
And no, I don't consider running commands from a terminal window as "running from a desktop environment". The terminal runs on the desktop environment. The command runs on the terminal.
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