A look at OpenWrt

There are numerous Linux distributions focused on small network routers; most of them are ultimately derived from the WRT54G source that was extracted from LinkSys some years ago. One popular choice, Tomato, was reviewed here at the beginning of 2010. Tomato is not a hugely active project, though (one minor release in the 18 months since that review) and is not fully free software. Users wanting a more active, more free distribution are likely to settle on OpenWrt; your editor recently picked up a new router with the idea of playing with this distribution. Subscribers can click below for an OpenWrt investigation from this week's edition.

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