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I wish them best luck, but it would fall in a similar league of boards like the NanoPi R5S, which is hard to beat in price. https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.

I wish them best luck, but it would fall in a similar league of boards like the NanoPi R5S, which is hard to beat in price. https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=287 https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product... On the other hand, they would sell it with direct support for real OpenWrt, while many other manufacturers, including FriendlyElec, often publish franken-Linux distros that force users to resort to others such as Armbian and DietPi to be sure their OS doesn't become obsolete and unsupported in a few years.

JeremyNT 3y ago
I don't feel like it really needs to compete on price though. As long as it's not totally unreasonable, I (and I assume other OpenWRT enthusiasts) would gladly pay a premium for a device that includes truly first class OpenWRT support.
- pseudosavant 3y ago
  I will absolutely pay $100 for that router with top notch openwrt support. Not cheap, but very reasonable.
chx 3y ago
oh these are very interesting I have been looking for an open source replacement for the Elecom WRH-583BK2-S is there anything in there? It's a W65 x D35 x H20.5 (mm), dual LAN, 802.11ac router.
geraldhh 3y ago
tbf openwrt is also an unusual linux distro, just a very widely used one.
- zekica 3y ago
  The difference is that OpenWrt has the entire source code available, and unlike those franken-distros, it is built as vanilla linux + a set of patches. As long as there is enough interest, anyone can rebase these patches on top of a newer mailine kernel. For example some Ubnt XW boards recently got an update to 23.05 after being stuck on 19.07.