There's a reason for the old kernel - basically the company that owned the Vyatta project really started neglecting the free version by the end and it hasn't se

There's a reason for the old kernel - basically the company that owned the Vyatta project really started neglecting the free version by the end and it hasn't seen much proper maintenance in ages. I'm starting to get invloved in the fork that was recently taken, called VyOS [1]. Updating the base to a newer version of Debian is a high priority, but there's a fair bit of work in it. Since Vyatta Core (the community version) is essentially dead, and there is at least one Ubiquiti guy involved in the fork, we hope that VyOS will eventually be the base for EdgeOS. And as for the hardware acceleration - I wish the drivers were open source but even as it is, it's really a necessary evil to get very good performance on low cost hardware. 1. http://vyos.net http://vyos.net