I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don’t know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It’s a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn’t more popular/widely used.

  • mFatOPEnglish
    2•9 months ago

    It’s a joy to use on x86 hardware though. You can run as many services as you want.

    • SayCyberOnceMoreEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      IMO, I’d run pf/opnsense on an x86 box, but openwrt on a low powered device…

      Did that years ago with a pfSense firewall connected to the DSL modem, with OpenWrt APs around the house…until the hardware couldn’t support the next version of OpenWrt… (not enough RAM?)