As somebody who has used freerunner since 2008 daily I can say that for me the largest problem is the lack of stable touchscreen friendly FOSS applications. For example I'm currently using the debian "dates" package as my calendar but that is going to be removed since upstream has abandoned it ages ago. I can't take the calendar from meego since it does not come with source code. I could take the android calendar but unfortunately after that it'd be difficult to run non-android applications. Perhaps Tizen will write me an HTML5 calendar application that I can then use with chromium? Unfortunately chromium is not very touchscreen friendly either. There is the chromeTouch extension but it does not come with a free license (I mailed the author in 2010 but got no reply).

Offloading rasterization has great benefits though. For every postscript printer there seems to be at least one file that causes it to reboot or (worse) get stuck. Such problems are much easier to fix when the postscript interpreter runs on the PC.

cyanogenmod claims to have 745,259 users currently. I am not sure if it is completely free or not but clearly more than 10000 users are using unofficial and modified version.

Hmm, can you give a link to the source code? Afaik we don't have source code to the sun java plugin. Openjdk's java plugin is a completely different project and does not work on many sites that are only tested with sun java.

Indeed. Using rtklib you can get 10 cm accuracy even with two cheap openmoko phones (~200 EUR) and cheap antennas (~20 EUR): http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/finhack/finhack2010-rtklib-lindfors.pdf -- you can read more about it on foss-gps mailing list.

Openmoko seems to be missing from the list. According to http://people.openmoko.org/openmoko/certificate/gta/gta02/certificate/CE/EA832514_R01_CE%20SAR_FIC_GTA02.pdf the SAR is 1.05 W/kg for GSM.

Says who? ;-) http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html specifically says that apache2 has some requirements that are not in gpl2: "Please note that this license is not compatible with GPL version 2, because it has some requirements that are not in the older version. These include certain patent termination and indemnification provisions."

Unfortunately that does not really improve security in typical usage patterns. If you leave your terminal unlocked (or there's a bug in your web browser / pdf reader / etc. that allows arbitrary code execution) it is easy to escalate to root by doing echo alias sudo="/usr/bin/sudo /tmp/rootkit" >> .bashrc and patiently waiting for the user to use sudo for the next time.

My thoughts exactly, I don't want to use non-free adobe flash and slideshare does not work with gnash. Fortunately a very similar looking PDF does seem to be available at

http://elinux.org/images/f/f7/RightApproachMinimalBootTimes.pdf

I admit that I don't know much about this either but currently at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608428 we are wondering if it is possible to support mount paths longer than 80 characters with breaking the freebsd kernel ABI.

That's kind of the point. Distributions make installing software easier since you don't need to figure it out yourself.

(If you look at sqlninja-0.2.5.tgz you see you can just run the perl script with "./sqlninja".)

Doesn't work in this case since they don't ship a makefile.

http://iki.fi/lindi/usb/usbsnoop.txt has my step-by-step instructions for getting started with usb reverse engineering. It uses a perl script that reads a traffic dump and generates a C program that reproduces the traffic by calling libusb appropriately.

Of course it is a challenge to educate users but at least this gives you the possibility to access a trusted path if you care? I don't use Windows but as I understood it this is one of the features that gnu/linux systems really should support, at least as an option.

Doesn't "hardware-related" also forbid you from selling preinstalled computers that can decode MP3? Or what do you exactly mean? Openmoko has no hardware acceleration for MP3 decoding.