On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:09:03AM +0200, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote:
> > What are the engineering reasons for this? > > The reason is that the user normally wants to run a lot of root > applications such as rdate, power off, opkg, etc. Of course this should > be solved, but it should not be a top priority. Personally, I want to use my Freerunner as a satellite device for my own set of personal and corporate data, via a secured network of some sort. For me, that means I need to be able to trust the Freerunner, and if so many 'user' apps run as root, then I can't trust that. Perhaps even worst than data destruction would be data pilfering; think 'identity theft' and 'fraud' for a start. The moment that you connect a device to anything resembling a network, you can no longer consider the device to be 'single user'. Regards, Msquared... _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community