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OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

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271 points pykello | 1 comments | 08 Sep 25 16:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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mifydev ◴[08 Sep 25 18:04 UTC] No.45171662[source]▶
OpenWRT is such a good os for a router - simple but configurable UI, works reliably, I wish router companies would just ship it by default
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mifydev ◴[08 Sep 25 18:05 UTC] No.45171681[source]▶
But then you get annoying firmware providers like Broadcom who refuse to write OSS drivers for linux and a lot of work is being spent on the reverse engineering
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echelon ◴[08 Sep 25 18:08 UTC] No.45171723[source]▶
Can we accept a pragmatic world where we have OSS + binary blobs?

That's better than a fully commercial world or a fully "pure" world with no functionality.

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1. opan ◴[08 Sep 25 19:39 UTC] No.45172904[source]▶
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. Things would be even worse if people didn't care about blobs.