alternatives exist

Posted Apr 28, 2016 0:29 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: alternatives exist by dlang
Parent article: Moglen: How Should the Free Software Movement View the Linux Foundation?

You most definitely can run custom code on their boxes, you don't need anything really special. I think they are even supported by the mainline kernel now (quick check shows that there are indeed RB4xx support files in the kernel).

There are HOWTOs about running Debian on RBs, they are somewhat dated but still working.

There's also full OpenWRT support.