Fwd: The open source ready Linksys WRT1900AC wireless router is here! FREE Shipping for a limited time only.

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Apr 14 13:29:04 UTC 2014


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 07:05:28AM -0400, Scott Allen wrote:
> The WRT54GL was designed for Linux support. That's what the "L" in the
> name stands for.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series#WRT54GL>

Well it isn't linux support, but rather that it runs linux.  The vxworks
models had much worse performance than the original linux versions (As
far as I recall the v5 of the WRT54G was when they moved it to vxworks).

vxworks was so not a router OS, and I don't think Linksys had considered
that before deciding to change the OS to save flash and ram because
vxworks was smaller and didn't have the GPL thing to deal with.

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