On 03/15/2014 05:09 AM, Russell Senior wrote: > > <snip> > > 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. > > <snip> > > 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.
As far as I can see I probably won't want a custom single-board doohickey. But, I do want to have a system with ongoing development and support from more than a single individual. Sounds like OpenWrt is the thing for me. I'll bring my stock Buffalo N600 with me tomorrow learn something new. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
