>> Should I stick with a distro I know or learn OpenWRT?
>
> As a long-term Gentoo abuser, just use OpenWRT.  I'm not sure what the
> immediate state of the Gentoo Embedded project is, but from my last
> experience with it, you'll spend about as much time (if not more)
> learning how to deal with it as you will with OpenWRT.  Gentoo is also
> very OpenWRT friendly - all the building prerequisites are already
> there.

I'm thinking more along the lines of buying or building a minimal x86
system and using full-blown Gentoo.  There's less to learn, more
consistency with my other systems, and it will be more feature-full.
On the downside, the hardware will be more expensive, I think more
prone to failure, more power-hungry, and potentially noisier although
not necessarily.  Administration will be more involved, but at least
there won't be any new administrative stuff to learn.  It's a pretty
close call, but I'm thinking Gentoo on x86 is the right thing to do.

- Grant
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