Meet the mintBox: A New Mini-PC with Linux Mint Preinstalled

12.06.2012
Microsoft's for Windows 8 PCs may have many members of the open source community up in arms, but even as the ongoing saga , a small army of alternatives are quietly marching onto the scene.

A few weeks ago, for example, I wrote about two new PCs from System76 that come with . (System76, incidentally, has since also that it will ship all systems with secure boot disabled "until a more workable solution is found.")

Then, too, there's the ever-growing array of tiny Linux PCs such as the , the , the , the , and the , to name just a few.

The latest to appear? None other than the mintBox, a brand-new PC introduced late last week by the project in association with CompuLab.

'Packed with Connectivity'

"We're passionate about what we do and for our very first Mint device, we wanted something unique, something special and extraordinary," wrote Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint founder and project leader, in a on Friday. "The mintBox is Mint in a box. It's tiny, it's silent, it's extremely versatile and it comes packed with connectivity."