corsicanguppy comments on OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Countdown until the project ONLY supports its own internal hardware.

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

It would probably get usurped and replaced by a fork. It is the primary distro used in much of the commercial embedded space at scale.

I wish they could influence the market to return to open source modems. I don't think there has been a single open design in over a decade; since the Atheros chips. Well likely see an Open Risc-V processor in the near term. It would be really nice to see a fully open hardware from bootloader to radios.

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[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Pfsense is that you?! /s

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