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OpenWRT and its LEDE fork eventually merged back together for similar reasons. I couldn't be happier -- the result is amazing.

msla 7y ago
egcs and gcc "merged" in that the modern gcc is the descendant of the egcs codebase. Rick Moen wrote a good essay titled "Fear of Forking" http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/forking.html http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/forking.html It's a defense of forking, but it contains a few capsule histories of important forks of the past (from the perspective of when it was written) which are interesting.
- Anthony-G 7y ago
  That’s a great essay, alright – and still stands the test of time. I remember Rick Moen’s contributions to mailing lists in the early 2000s being insightful and informative (for me). When I first started using GNU/Linux in 1999 (Red Hat 6), I found it confusing to understand what all the fuss was about with libc/glibc and egcs/gcc. I think the differences had been resolved by that stage but all the related documentation referred to the split which made learning this strange new system very confusing (at the time, I knew what a compiler did but I didn’t know about anything about architectures other than x86 and I didn’t know why a C library was so important). Rick includes a reference to the Emacs split of the early 90s. Jamie Zawinski’s reflection on this fork is quite interesting: https://anonym.to/?https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html https://anonym.to/?https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html (using the anoymiser as Jamie doesn't seem to like news.ycombinator.com as a referer).
okigan 7y ago
any recommendations for a recent 5G router that can be flashed to OpenWrt? The table of hardware [1] has many routers but many have exceptions that 5G is not working. Amazon [2] has some micro travel routers only - so what are good options under 100$? [1] https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_864?dataflt%5BDevice+Type*%7E%5D=WiFi+Router&dataflt%5BFlash+MB*%7E%5D=16 https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_864?dataflt%5BDe... [2] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=openwrt https://www.amazon.com/s?k=openwrt
- Holmes 7y ago
  5 GHz band wifi? Or 5G wireless?

msla 7y ago

egcs and gcc "merged" in that the modern gcc is the descendant of the egcs codebase. Rick Moen wrote a good essay titled "Fear of Forking" http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/forking.html http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/forking.html It's a defense of forking, but it contains a few capsule histories of important forks of the past (from the perspective of when it was written) which are interesting.

Anthony-G 7y ago
That’s a great essay, alright – and still stands the test of time. I remember Rick Moen’s contributions to mailing lists in the early 2000s being insightful and informative (for me). When I first started using GNU/Linux in 1999 (Red Hat 6), I found it confusing to understand what all the fuss was about with libc/glibc and egcs/gcc. I think the differences had been resolved by that stage but all the related documentation referred to the split which made learning this strange new system very confusing (at the time, I knew what a compiler did but I didn’t know about anything about architectures other than x86 and I didn’t know why a C library was so important). Rick includes a reference to the Emacs split of the early 90s. Jamie Zawinski’s reflection on this fork is quite interesting: https://anonym.to/?https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html https://anonym.to/?https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html (using the anoymiser as Jamie doesn't seem to like news.ycombinator.com as a referer).

okigan 7y ago

any recommendations for a recent 5G router that can be flashed to OpenWrt? The table of hardware [1] has many routers but many have exceptions that 5G is not working. Amazon [2] has some micro travel routers only - so what are good options under 100$? [1] https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_864?dataflt%5BDevice+Type*%7E%5D=WiFi+Router&dataflt%5BFlash+MB*%7E%5D=16 https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_864?dataflt%5BDe... [2] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=openwrt https://www.amazon.com/s?k=openwrt

Holmes 7y ago
5 GHz band wifi? Or 5G wireless?