A rumor has started to spread from the hand of Fanless tech about MintBox, a product made with the union of linuxmint y Compulab, manufacturer of MiniPC.
The question is that linuxmint have been thinking about having their own Hardware, and I don't know why the news that already OEM versions of Maya are available, tells me that something has to do with all this. There will be two models of this MiniPC based on the processors AMD G-Series T40N y T56N, which will include Linux Mint 13 and that they will have the following benefits:
- AMD CPU 1.65GHz Dual Core.
- Dual-head Radeon HD graphics.
- 4GB of RAM.
- 250GB HDD.
- 4 USB ports.
- Dual-head DisplayPort.
- HDMI.
- 2 eSATA ports.
- Ethernet.
- Wi-Fi access.
- Robust metal housing
From what you can see that the benefits will be more than enough for this distribution to work without problems. This from MintBox It is not new, because we had already seen it here DesdeLinux, after it was announced in the LinuxMint blog.
Both models are expected to be ready in the coming weeks, as well as the official announcement from linuxmint on their website, and although right now I don't think I can buy one of these artifacts, the idea seems great to me 😀
If this is so and I had money I think I bought one, Mint has a place in my heart linuxero
Great now I have to change country to get one of those XDs. Or failing that, go to the capital and start searching with a lot of effort XD.
Excellent news, waiting for the price to see if it is possible to buy it 🙂
regards
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Axis good ^ _ ^
I'll see the canonical ones running and jumping for wanting to do the same or something similar xD
a mini pc with ubuntu ahahahahaha
"That's the business" xD
Canonical has already worked on this idea, and in addition, it has dedicated itself to establishing business with hardware developers. There have been quite a few mockups (the vast majority by fans) and several advertisements. Ubuntu is installed, thanks to negotiations, on many laptops especially in China. Precisely on this website they did not inform about the interest of Ubuntu to be installed in 5% of the laptops sold in 2012/2013. Another of the originalities of the Mint guys? It is interesting to know that the Mintbox will be LTS mainly thanks to Canonical
Well, so much so that Mint gets blamed for Ubuntu when it seems to me that the same thing could be done to them. Ubuntu and its now new 5 years of LTS could easily be attributed to Debian, 2 years Testing + 2 years Stable + 1 OldStable gives for the 5 years that is generously granting Ubuntu. And I put that like this for not starting from Unstable, which I think is where it really starts, that is, it would last for even more years thanks to Debian.
Of the rest of what you say, it is true that there have been deals with Dell and I do not know who else, that the truth has not ended in anything (which does not mean that there have been) so it would be a matter of seeing how Mint does, I don't know if the approach and the mode would be different, I don't know how the idea was executed that time or how this is intended to be now. On amateur mockups it is the same as nothing, they do not imply anything real only "fanart" and on the "objective" of being in 5% of laptops more than a target It sounds like an electoral promise because the plan.
Regarding the deals with Dell, it is not true that they have not ended in anything, if there was an OEM version of Ubuntu at some point and when you bought a Dell you could choose it with this system pre-installed, which is not known if this option is still in force.
Now TDE the fact that the blog does not report on each Ubuntu news as it concerns the tastes and / or opinions of the editors and it does not seem correct to use it as an argument, if you are unhappy with the lack of this type of announcement You can contact them so that you can either write them, or stop complaining about their absence.
Indeed friend. We have said before that if someone wants certain news to be written, write about a distro that is not covered or mentioned a lot, the user can always write the posts if they wish.
We do not exclude any distro, we only write about what we consider interesting, or like more personally.
With the expression "it did not end at all," I am not trying to say that it was never done, but that it was done, but the noise was more than the cabuya, it turned out to be more wet powder than anything else.
At the time it was done but at the time it was abandoned, I think that it is retaken from time to time as if to go like “let's see if it is the year of Ubuntu”, the only thing that seems to be permanently stopped was online sales ( if someone asks for it, well it is installed and sold) but I don't know if they have already removed it. But in short, nothing according to the goals and expectations that were aired.
But what was done, yes. But that it has succeeded and that it has "come to something" is something else.
One question, is the Ubuntu LTS really just attributable to the Debian development cycle?
And how about these questions Why not? Why is Mint "pure and simple" attributable to Ubuntu?
Anyway, you should not ask me that question, since I am not one of those who is blaming those things in face, on the contrary I criticize that attitude and mention that if we all get fanboy we can be pulling rags "to whoever" , since everyone who is not Distro Madre has a straw tail and must not be creating sparks. But selfishness and lack of humility are always surrounding a certain distro, that has caused much of a certain aversion towards it.
They thought of something else: Ubuntu+Android. Remember that the objectives of both are very different.
No. Ubuntu four Android and Ubuntu Tv are not comparable in this case. Not for that, Canonical has not abandoned its intentions to be in the world of the PC, has it? The LTS for 5 years is not something to your whim, much less is the Ubuntu installation plan on 5% of the computers to be sold this year.
The thing is, you're saying it, friend, plans, and plans don't always come to fruition. The market is very competitive, and Canonical alone cannot take all the work of "making Linux known" because many things first exist or are tested in other distros or by other companies like Red Hat and their ultra-successful business model or Suse Linux having Microsoft as its main partner ... hell, Canonical is doing well but it's not god, the Ubuntu TV thing already came from the ideas of MythTV or XBMC which were specialized multimedia centers ...
Ubutn for Android is not that it is a big deal, it is an interesting experiment but you need the phone to move that mode and the truth is that it is just one step to try to make your own system.
With all due respect Nano, and with all appreciation I express that in your comment you use an argument that is not the most appropriate in this case. You make it look, through your statements, as if I reified Canonical and Ubuntu, when it is not. Simply what I am trying to point out, answering directly to the comment that opens this thread of answers, is that precisely Canonical would have nothing to envy Linux Mint. And I give reasons for this: the plans (which are not spurious things, but are materializing) give us to think that precisely these are not going to run and jump to create a Mini PC. A materializable example (only one) is Dell, or you can look at this very recent and already real note (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/06/hands-on-with-the-system76-lemur-ultra-ubuntu-laptop).
If you look closely, I have never argued, nor do I believe that Canonical 'alone cannot claim all the work of “making Linux known”'. That I have not affirmed. What's more, I find it surprising that you immediately get a judgment on the successful Red Hat model, and that Suse Linux's partner is Microsoft. I wonder, making clarification that I do not believe that in Canonical they want to make Linux known alone, does Red Hat and its successful model for the normal citizen, or that Suse Linux has Microsoft as a partner, represents a greater recognition of Linux? At the business level Red Hat represents a lot, I respect and I like Fedora, but ... although this is hard, Canonical simply has not done anything? Is the recognition of Ubuntu something that does not matter, or has it not contributed anything so that Linux is known ? I just think something, the distro for computers and laptops that has had the greatest recognition for the public, in the history of distros, is precisely Ubuntu, and it has done something.
Continuing with your argument, I am surprised by your expression 'hell, Canonical is doing well but it is not god'. I have not affirmed such a thing, and less to put that Ubuntu TV is something original. More however, it strikes me that when Canonical releases "Ubuntu four Android" or "Ubuntu TV" here it asks "what's this about?", Or "what do you have that no longer exists?" It turns out that with the advances of Ubuntu arguments are drawn such as that by getting things out on time they leave bugs, that it has not yet dominated the PC world and they already want to cover other things, and a whole series of tendentious arguments that, when others distros have something similar, there if it's great, there if it's the best.
I would like to ask myself in this case, "Mintbox, what do you have that no longer exists?", And I would like to use an argumentation like the one you rightly gave in a comment below. But beware, the idea is "great", and we criticize another tendentiously. Ubuntu is presented as the distro that "due to lack of time in the development cycle, they have released several versions loaded with bugs", but to Cinammon 1.3.1 we attribute its rapid development by correcting version 1.3 in record time "for the benefit of its users: D ». Or how about applying that same judgment with sloppy Linux Mint KDE? Ahh no, here if you can ignore that and point out that the guys at Mint could benefit from the crisis that Kubuntu suffered. Here if it is worth to ignore the weak development and the neglect of Mint.
What if we did an analysis of this Mintbox idea, and we didn't just mention that it is a "great" idea, but that it has commercial interests. Now we live to beat Canonical for having commercial interests (could quote comments, etc), but Linux Mint we simply say that it is "great". Why not apply in a very similar situation, a valid criterion for both?
The latter is all I ask. Although no one has the right to speak about what they do not like, the idea is to maintain a clear position on it. Do not criticize something for X things, but exalt another for the same thing. Doing that is called bias. And it is not the first time that I say it here. If so, I can invite anyone to do a thorough review of the interpretations given here to Canonical developments. But it turns out that the joke is clear: If Ubuntu presents something, that something does not represent much. But when others present it and it is well valued, and the tendency of that is pointed out, there if we jump to use arguments that try to derive that Ubuntu does things well but is not god, or that there was already that, and so on.
This is how things go.
Let's see, in parts.
Like politicians you confuse plans with objectives. Objectives are the goal, plans are the way to achieve it.
Even if you call the announcement of "selling 5% of computers this year" a plan, that is nothing more than a promise, because announcing it will not achieve compliance, it will not achieve they sell you and that they buy you that 5% in machines.
Now, leaving aside this "correctness of form", I move on to the idea you want to raise.
That Canonical says that shows that it does not intend to abandon the Desktop? It can mean many things, it can mean that, it can mean that it only said it to create hype on the eve of the year that began, or to excite its people, or so that they do not feel abandoned and drift after supporting them for so long at the Desk, or because leaving the Desk would be a defeat very serious for Canonical and Ubuntu (since their reason for being has always been this and they have always sold themselves as the anointed ones to achieve it) so that no matter how lost that war may be, it should never be recognized ... at least until another has been conquered niche to offset (*).
(*) like the niche of tables and mobiles, which are not so lost (which in my opinion are also lost, even MS has it hard), or even a relatively virgin one like TV; It is still interesting that Canonical, still unfinished to achieve its initial goal, is now increasingly deviating towards these boundaries, which makes me share the same thinking as the rest.
On the expansion of the LTS it works the same for the Desktop as for the rest, in fact it is better for those embedded devices than for the Desktop, so this is not something that I swear was done for the Desktop.
True, from a certain point of view.
As I said in my first comment but I clarify it again, (**) I have not deepened or wanted to understand beyond the basics in the plans of both Ubuntu and Mint in this field since it is a subject that interests me quite little, but it seems to me that they are different in form and I think that is why everyone comments that "it is different" "it was about time" or as they said that I no longer remember. What Canonical has done seems to me (** and I repeat in what I clarify before) is something similar to what MS does with OEM Windows, while it seems to me (**) that Mint seeks to do it is like Apple does.
That is, even if the result is "the same" and from a certain point of view nobody envies anything, they are different in form.
It is true!
Well, I'm afraid that each one has taken different paths but similar to what is hardware
http://usemoslinux.blogspot.mx/2012/05/vga-switch-el-primer-hardware-libre-de.html
although both are very good initiatives.
Cheers(:
buddy check before you speak, already canonical has been working on this.
please do not speak by speaking or attacking others shows maturity.
Thank you
Pepe, I think that the one who speaks without noticing is you ... he says that each one has taken different paths regarding the hardware and in fact, it is not entirely false; Canonical has said they are interested in working on several small free hardware projects… that's one.
PS: you too must show that maturity you are talking about.
An absolute offtopic.
The site has a "problem" that on the first page it shows you let's say "10 news", now if you go to the second page the (let's say) "10 news" that shows you "9" are from the previous page, then on the third page onwards it works fine.
Ready I have it, I'll notify the team.
Let's hope first who is going to distribute it and especially the PRICE.
Now regarding all this, it seems to me something spectacular but predictable the fact that Linux now begins to make the leap to its own hardware. If Apple and Microsoft already have theirs, was it not out of the question that Linux began to see this kind of move?
What I am saying is that if they start with this it would be better for Mint to leave its other distros and dedicate itself as God intended to its version based on Ubuntu and strive to make it differentiate from Ubuntu, to work it much more because for me it is Ubuntu with the button "install third party software" pressed by default and some extra things, a more traditional environment and… Ready? xD
IDEM
Personally, I think Linux Mint wants to hoard too much of what it can really bring out, as my compa said @Elder brother Linux Mint is a tuned Ubuntu and a little more, LMDE has not finished polishing and does not even make sure that they give continuity to it ¬.¬, Cinnamon still has its details as much as they make it known (I cannot speak about the since I have never used it and I don't think so either: P) and now they want to enter the field of hardware ¬.¬, is it that they are getting into an eleven-rod shirt?
With this I do not mean that it is a bad proposal or that they should not do it, but it would be logical that after so much stretching the blanket, they leave some part of the bed uncovered, don't they?
Regarding Linux with its own hardware, I think any initiative in this regard is excellent news. One of the most important problems for me with linux is that it sometimes causes problems with the hardware, in my view as an expert, often because of not "the hardware is designed for linux", a disadvantage that neither Microsoft nor Manzana. So, to eliminate these small incompatibilities is to move towards the popularization of Linux.
Regarding Mint, I don't have much idea, but the impression it has given me externally is that it uses Ubuntu but it stands out from the innovation (fortunate or not) of the latest versions, and offers an alternative to those who want more desktops. classic and minimalist. I wanted to try a KDE distribution and had thought of Linux Mint KDE. Do you think it is a good idea?
It's a good idea, but if you go wrong try Mageia and Chakra. Linux Mint KDE should give a similar performance to Kubuntu (the latter suits me well). You also have alternatives like Sabayon, openSUSE, Fedora KDE, ...
Thanks, I'm going to try it. I tried openSUSE briefly and I liked it too.
Go Mint Go!
It seems to me that linux mint is covering too much, it could start by having its own repositories ...
East… linuxmint has long maintained its own repositories. ¬¬
only one elav <° Linux… only one repository
xq when you do sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
the same answers come out of ubuntu plus the only one of mint
Little by little LINUX MINT is advancing.