Hello everyone, For the past few months I've been playing around with (read: customizing) two machines I've got here, one being an Asus WL500gP running FreeWRT and the other Linksys running OpenWRT. I also spent quite some time nosing around the IRC channels, Forums, Wikis and homepages. From this period I've noticed a few things. A minor warning: Potential flame bait ahead. My intention is not to express any opinion about anything being better than anything else; I would merely like to pose a sugestion.
I've used both build systems and from this I feel FreeWRT to be ahead of OpenWRT as far as tehnology is concerned. It definitely is more flexible in it's build system, has more packages, and generally feels more proffessional. Whether this is actually true doesn't really matter for now. What I feel does matter is that there is a severe lack of proper documentation for FreeWRT, which sometimes makes it a right pain-in-the-bottom to configure / modify. It is in this aspect that I feel OpenWRT to be quite strong, which inherently makes it more accessible to users and developpers alike. Now, what would be nice if we could get FreeWRT to get a similar level of accessibilty for both developpers and "mere mortal users". The way that OpenWRT seems to achieve this is through the use of a publicly accessible Wiki (MoinMoin in their case). Their documentation system isn't perfect, but at least they've got quite a large part of their system documented. Such a system has at least two positive consequences. (1) Developpers can be assisted in their documentation by users, or even relieved of documenting at all in some cases. Developpers generally hate documenting, so this seems like a desirable situation. (2) The other consequence of better documentation is that it will most likely make FreeWRT more accesible and thus attract more developpers and / or users to the FreeWRT community, who in their turn again might contribute to the community. Ofcourse mainatining a Wiki requires some resources like time and bandwith, but that seems like a small price to pay for a more or less self-sustaining documentation system. Greetings, Johnny Halfmoon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a free email account with anti spam protection. http://www.bluebottle.com _______________________________________________ freewrt-developers mailing list [email protected] https://www.freewrt.org/lists/listinfo/freewrt-developers
