Possible alternative: Raspberry Pi + Modem

Posted Jul 30, 2014 21:26 UTC (Wed) by debacle (subscriber, #7114)
In reply to: Possible alternative: Raspberry Pi + Modem by dlang
Parent article: The EFF launches a router project

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.