Possible alternative: Raspberry Pi + Modem [LWN.net]

Possible alternative: Raspberry Pi + Modem

Posted Jul 29, 2014 22:47 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Possible alternative: Raspberry Pi + Modem by debacle
Parent article: The EFF launches a router project

Openwrt has opkg, but if you are deciding based on the package manager, go for it.

I'd love for someone to take the time to make a installation profile that could be squeezed down to a router.

I was just taking issue with the description of OpenWRT as being a specialized distro.

you can define terms so that anything other than Debian is specialized, but if you go a bit broader (to include things like Fedora, Suse, RHEL), then OpenWRT should qualify as well.

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Possible alternative: Raspberry Pi + Modem

Posted Jul 30, 2014 21:26 UTC (Wed) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link] (1 responses)

I just distinguished between a specialised OS such as OpenWRT, which runs only on routers, and an universal OS, which runs - more or less identical - on a server, a desktop, or an embedded device. The latter could be Debian (my choice) or Fedora, Mint, Redhat, S.u.S.E., Ubuntu etc., of course. To me it is an advantage to use the same OS for different purposes, but this depends very much on individual needs/choices.

Possible alternative: Raspberry Pi + Modem

Posted Jul 30, 2014 21:32 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

Openwrt runs on x86 systems as well, again it's not as limited as you think.

It runs on more types of devices that Fedora does.

Remember, it's still using the Linux kernel, and the userspace is still *nix. So it's not nearly as limited as you are thinking.