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Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS

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From	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject	Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS
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> I've not really found a comprehensive overview of what openwrt is
> supposed to do that leaves one feeling they know what the
> software does.

FWIW, I recommend OpenWRT if you care about your freedom.
Most alternatives seem to care less about freedom (are more willing to
include proprietary bits) and don't make tinkering as easy.

OpenWRT is not perfect by a long stretch (their story for upgrading the
firmware without having to redo the config is fairly weak), but it
really gives you a lot of flexibility (by being able to very easily (tho
it takes significant CPU time and disk space) build a customized
firmware) while providing a fairly clean and simple default with a GUI
that's good enough to cover the typical needs.  So you can start as
a "dumb user" which just downloads a prebuilt firmware, then later on
decide to add some prebuilt packages from some archive somewhere, and
yet later on build your own firmwares and packages.  The steps between
these are surprisingly small.


        Stefan

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which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> - 2012-01-06 13:10 -0500
  Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-01-06 20:23 +0100
    Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> - 2012-01-06 15:04 -0500
      Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-01-06 23:13 +0100
        Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-01-07 14:01 +0100
        Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> - 2012-01-07 10:17 -0800
      Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2012-01-07 10:39 +0100
        Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2012-01-07 10:40 +0100
  Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> - 2012-01-08 09:43 +0100
    Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> - 2012-01-09 10:47 -0500
      Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> - 2012-01-09 17:20 +0100
        Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> - 2012-01-09 17:21 +0100
        Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> - 2012-01-10 21:35 +0100
          Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> - 2012-01-11 08:19 -0500
        Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> - 2012-01-11 08:24 -0500
          Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> - 2012-01-11 15:23 +0100
          Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2012-01-11 16:30 -0500
            Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> - 2012-01-11 23:14 +0100
    Re: which midpriced routers accept opensource OS Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> - 2012-01-12 10:28 -0500

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