On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 09:20:48AM -0700, Grant wrote: > 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.
I went the other way. I had been using an old PC running Debian as my router, but replaced it with a D-Link DIR-825 running OpenWrt. Advantages: - about $50 on eBay - supports gigabit Ethernet, 802.11N, and USB - completely silent - uses less than 25W Learn something new and help save the planet! :-) -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
