OpenSSH 8.6 released

Posted Apr 22, 2021 20:32 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
In reply to: OpenSSH 8.6 released by Sesse
Parent article: OpenSSH 8.6 released

I was asking about what they *can* run rather than what they ship with.

OpenSSH 8.6 released

Posted Apr 22, 2021 20:36 UTC (Thu) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779) [Link] (1 responses)

They can run firmware images signed by the vendor, using their proprietary OS, period. They can not run Linux, there is no effort underway to port Linux to them, the hardware (which is custom, highly nontrivial, and intertwined with the software) is not documented, and to be honest, I don't think I'd want Linux on them either.

OpenSSH 8.6 released

Posted Apr 22, 2021 21:00 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

There are folks trying to change this, here are a few of the Debian derivatives I know about, I think they mostly do enterprise stuff though:

https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/VyOS
https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/DANOS
https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/CumulusLinux
https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/OpenNetworkLinux