>>>>> "King" == King Beowulf <[email protected]> writes:
King> With DD-Wrt there is some F/OSS licensing issues and King> historically they have been accused of GPL violations in the King> past. I am not entirely convinced that they have fixed those King> issues. Not that I begrudge them to make a buck, but DD-Wrt has King> two versions: free for non-commercial use and paid for King> commercial use. The "free" version is missing some King> functionality. [...] The awesome thing about OpenWrt is that it is putty in your hands. It has thousands of packages available. A supported device can do almost anything. DD-Wrt, which is quite popular has an altogether different vibe. It is really adapted to non-technical end-users who want to use their router in pretty much the typical way. DD-Wrt users are almost completely reliant on the developer to do development. Their forums are full of people speculating on when the Great Man will deliver feature X, or support device Y. OpenWrt, in contrast, is very open. If you want a package, you just opkg install it. If you want or need a custom image, you select the packages you want in it, perhaps override stock files, and build your own damned image. Boom, done. No begging, no speculating. It is reasonably easy to carry along your own local development branches with git, rebasing against the upstream versions to capture improvements, if you need to. There is certainly a place for DD-Wrt. Not everyone wants or needs to turn their router into a custom single-board doohickey. But with OpenWrt, they can if they want to. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
