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OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

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271 points pykello | 2 comments | 08 Sep 25 16:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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CursedSilicon ◴[08 Sep 25 18:45 UTC] No.45172165[source]▶
I'm a staunch defender of OpenWRT. Having used just about every "router distro" folks care to name (remember SmoothWall?) for the last 20~ years, OpenWRT is built like a tank and just keeps trundling along

I hope their experiments with the "OpenWRT One" keep going. I'd love to see OpenWRT take a (deserved) bite out of the "SMB firewall vendors" like Netgate or OPNsense. Or just undercutting Wi-Fi vendors like Ubiquiti who base their work on OpenWRT anyway

Something I'm excited to try myself in future is running "OpenWISP" [1] to manage a small fleet (three) OpenWRT devices in parallel for a deployment in a shared workshop. This seems to also be something that OpenWRT could be better at integrating, but it's nice to see "a vendor" tackling it

[1] https://openwisp.org/

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1. 1vuio0pswjnm7 ◴[09 Sep 25 02:31 UTC] No.45176717[source]▶
"Or just undercutting Wi-Fi vendors like Ubiquiti who basse their work on OpenWRT anyway."

Not sure about today, but this company used to sell hardware whose capabilities were IIRC only "fully enabled" if the buyer used the company's closed source OS. An open source OS might work with the hardware but the buyer would not get the same performance.

At the time, the HN comments continuously supported this company. It appeared that for these commmenters, this was a worthwhile sacrifice. They would just keep recommending Ubiquiti. (Unsolicted recommendations)

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