Everyone, Traffic on the list is unusually low. Is something wrong with the list I should be aware of?
I imagine the traffic is low because people are reading the manuals. Many posts used to be repeats - same problems encountered by others - but with LEAFs excellent documentation perhaps we are encountering fewer problems but more boxen. Cheers to the Bearing and uClibC developers for their excellent documentation. Just upgraded three LEAF boxes in the last couple of weeks. The only minor problems I had was when I skipped something in the docs.
Maybe its time for a /. article on uClibC Leaf. That would pick up the traffic.
Actually, if you look at the archive, you'll see that there has been a pretty steady downward trend in leaf-user message traffic by month over almost 3 years. This month is a slight abberration, but not marked one.
I suspect the reason for the overall trend down is a mix of several things:
1. Our releases are pretty mature and stable, so less goes wrong on the code side. So there is less to ask about.
2. There are a LOT of other router-scale Linux distros out there. We have more competition.
3. Home NATing routers from Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, and the rest are more competitive with home-built routers than they used to be. Plain routers are dirt cheap, and even ones with 802.11g can be almost free (I just bought one for about $US2, net after a $30 rebate) ... just try to get 802.11g (or even b) workijng with Linux. Hah!
4. Part of our traffic used to be people discussing general issues (not specific to LEAF releases) of routing and firewalling. That discussion seems to have gone somewhere else.
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