On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 14:09 -0700, Grant wrote: > Thanks a lot to everyone for their help with this. I'm realizing that > OpenWRT has a lot of flexibility and a lot of the complication that > goes along with it. I'm surprised that one of the few distros which > is primarily for router devices is so flexible. I was thinking that > since the hardware OpenWRT is typically run on is less complicated > than a desktop's, and the use of that hardware is less complicated > than a desktop's, the distro itself would also be more simple to > install and configure than the most popular Linux desktop distros like > Ubuntu.
The problem is that Ubuntu supports 3 platforms - i386, amd64, and OpenWRT supports at least 22 "architectures", within each you'll find 5-20 different builds. Each platform has different install instructions, from TFTP to HTTP upload, each decided by that device's manufacturer. It's necessarily more complicated to install. If you really want install-and-go, try Tomato or DD-WRT. But if those don't work for you, or don't have the feature you want, OpenWRT is by far your best choice. Regards, Tyler -- "Offending fundamentalists isn't my goal – but if it is an inevitable side-effect of defending human rights, so be it." -- Johann Hari _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
