ThinkWiki News

Here you can find news and announcements regarding ThinkWiki.

26.04.2007: Linux 2.6.21 has been released including Dynticks and Clockevents

13.04.2007: New user creation disabled temporarily due to spam bots corrupting pages.

15.03.2007: Please help build the brand new vaiowiki.org!

21.02.2007: According to an unverified blogpost, a group of people led by Jerome Glisse begun to work on an open-source driver for the R500 series. Those chips are common in newer ThinkPads.

31.12.2006: ibm-acpi 0.13-20061231 stable release patches for Linux 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 available at the ibm-acpi sourceforge page

22.12.2006: ibm-acpi 0.13 merged into Linux 2.6.20-rc2, adding advanced fan control

18.11.2006: KThinkBat 0.2.3 release, improving remaining time calculations and adding support for Acer/Asus laptops

28.10.2006: KThinkBat 0.2.2 release, which now shows the remaining time

23.10.2006: ThinkWiki has been upgraded to MediaWiki 1.8.2

28.09.2006: Lenovo recalls 526.000 batteries manufactured by Sony found in R51e, R52, R60, R60e, T43, T43p, T60, X60 and X60s

04.08.2006: Lenovo officially supports Novell SUSE Linux on its T60p range.

30.07.2006: An article at IBM Devworks introduces knock-based commands.

23.05.2006: New Xorg 7.1 released! Including support for AIGLX and more. Releasenotes

14.05.2006: New kernel patches enable UltraBay hotswapping on recent ThinkPads

05.05.2006: It's proven! Mac OS X runs on ThinkPads.

12.04.2006: ThinkWiki's user count has exceeded 1 KB.

25.03.2006: ThinkWiki has been upgraded to MediaWiki 1.5.7

20.03.2006: New Linux 2.6.16 with better energy saving and improved SATA support.

24.02.2006: ThinkWiki has been upgraded to MediaWiki 1.5.6

21.02.2006: The new lt_hotswap kernel module enables hot-swapping of drives with full DMA support.

17.02.2006: ThinkWiki has been upgraded to MySQL 5.0.16, PHP/5.1.2 and Apache 2.0.55 for better performance.

11.02.2006: The sdhci driver has been reported to work for SD Card slots

10.02.2006: Alpha version of Gkrellm-ThinkBat plugin

30.01.2006: Please test KThinkBat-0.1.5_rc2

17.01.2006: Have a look at our new anti spam policy!

14.01.2006: ThinkWiki has been upgraded to mediawiki 1.5.5

12.01.2006: KThinkBat-0.1.5_alpha2 now uses the tp_smapi driver

12.01.2006: ThinkWiki needs more than two bytes to count its registered users.

03.01.2006: The newly released linux-2.6.15 fixes SATA problems

03.01.2006: New Centrino access point driver announced.

06.12.2005: The new tp_smapi driver provides battery charging and CD speed control on recent ThinkPads.

29.11.2005: New firmware available for T43-26xx, adds option to disable 2010 warnings.

17.11.2005: KThinkBat 0.1.3 is a better looking battery applet for the KDE-Kicker.

28.10.2005: The newly released linux-2.6.14 contains trackpoint and HDAPS support.

25.09.2005: ThinkWiki just got one year old (yesterday, actually).

10.09.2005: The TrackPoint driver has made it in the 2.6 kernel.

26.08.2005: The HDAPS driver has made it to the -mm kernel series.

01.08.2005: ThinkWiki Search plugin for mozilla is available.

17.07.2005: ThinkWiki has more than one byte of registered users.

30.05.2005: GKrellM now supports ibm-acpi fan and thermal sersors monitoring

11.05.2005: Updated ThinkWiki software to MediaWiki v1.4.4

17.03.2005: ibm-acpi 0.11 is available

01.03.2005: Thanks to Wyrfel, we got a new logo!

14.02.2004: ThinkWiki counts more than 100 registered users.

17.01.2005: ibm-acpi 0.10 is available

31.12.2004: Happy new year!

27.12.2004: ibm-acpi is now part of kernel 2.6.10

12.12.2004: ThinkWiki welcomes its 50th registered user.

11.11.2004: A german ThinkWiki has been started.

9.11.2004: ibm-acpi 0.8 is available

27.10.2004: ibm-acpi is now in 2.6.10-rc1-mm1

25.10.2004: ibm-acpi 0.7 is available

27.09.2004: ThinkWiki got a new domain (www.thinkwiki.org)

24.09.2004: The ThinkWiki project has been started.

19. 7. 2007: New fglrx driver version 8.39.4 released.

26. 6. 2007: New fglrx driver version 8.38.6 released.

31. 5. 2007: New fglrx driver version 8.37.6 released.

18. 4. 2007: New fglrx driver version 8.36.5 released. Now supports 2.6.20 series kernels.

28. 3. 2007: New fglrx driver version 8.35.5 released

1. 3. 2007: New Lenovo battery recall: FRU 92P1131 (Sanyo 9-cell) may overheat when subject to strong impacts

21. 2. 2007: New fglrx driver 8.34.8 released

11. 1. 2007: New fglrx driver version 8.33.6 released

13.12.2006: New fglrx driver version 8.32.5 released

15.11.2006: New fglrx driver version 8.31.5 released

14.11.2006 New ThinkPad X60 Tablet reviewed, including SXGA+ model

03.11.2006: New fglrx driver version 8.30.3 released

20.09.2006: New fglrx driver version 8.29.6 released

18.08.2006: New fglrx driver version 8.28.8 released

04.08.2005: According to desktoplinux.com, Lenovo will sell Thinkpads with SuSE Enterprise Desktop 10 preloaded.

28.07.2006: New fglrx driver version 8.27.10 released including support for XOrg 7.1

27.06.2006: New fglrx driver version 8.26.18 released

05.06.2006: According to CNET [1], Lenovo is now denying dropping official Linux support.

04.06.2006: Sad news! According to CRN [2], Lenovo drops official Linux support for its PCs, including ThinkPads.

24.05.2006 New fglrx driver version 8.25.18 released

15.04.2006 Several news ([3], [4]) appeared that the next Lenovo models will be the R60, Z61m, Z61t and a new Tablet PC X60 Tablet.

12.04.2006 New fglrx driver version 8.24.8 released

09.03.2006 New fglrx driver version 8.23.7 released

10.02.2006 New fglrx driver version 8.22.5 released

28.01.2006 Lenovo and others have first mention of T60p models.

19.01.2006 New fglrx driver version 8.21.7 released

14.01.2006 A bit old news: Lenovo hires new CEO from Dell.

05.01.2006 Lenovo announces the next step in X and T series: X60, X60s and T60.

22.12.2005 Version 1.0 (final) of the BSP for the UPEK fingerprint sensor released.

08.12.2005 New fglrx driver version 8.20.8 released

11.11.2005 New fglrx driver version 8.19.10 released, adds suspend and PowerPlay

26.10.2005 New fglrx driver version 8.18.8 released

13.10.2005: Lenovo announces new R51e to be shipping with SUN StarOffice 8.

15.09.2005: Lenovo announces new WideScreen Z Series. Read here and here.

14.09.2005: Beta release of BSP for UPEK fingerprint sensors released.

17.08.2005: New fglrx driver version 8.16.20 released

09.06.2005: New fglrx driver version 8.14.13 released

11.04.2005: IBM and Sanyo demonstrate Fuel Cell prototype

16.02.2005: New fglrx driver version 8.10.19 released

04.02.2005: IBM sells its entire PC division to Lenovo (China's largest PC maker), exclusing the eSeries x86 range. The Think* brand is included in the deal and Lenovo has full use of it for 5 years.

17.01.2005: New fglrx driver version 8.8.25 (finally with X.Org 6.8 support)

28.11.2004: IBM recently released new T42 notebooks featuring Pentium M 765 processors, a FireGL T2 chip, 1GB of RAM and an integrated fingerprint scanner

09.11.2004: New fglrx driver version 3.14.6

26.09.2004: IBM recalls 56 Watt Thinkpad AC Adaptors