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Linux Distro For Linksys WRT54G

Posted by timothy on from the why-yes-it-does-run-linux dept.

scubacuda writes "Here is a tiny Linux distro for the Linksys wrt54g (d/l the distro here). In just a few seconds, you can give your access point's ramdisk syslog, telnetd, httpd (with cgi-bin support), vi, snort, mount, insmod, rmmod, top, grep, etc." Interesting -- "The script installs strictly to the ram disk of the box. No permanent changes are made. If you mess something up, power-cycle it."

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  1. Wow! by Not+The+Real+Me · · Score: -1, Troll

    And, I bet the same number of people who try this out will be the same number who still use BSD -- about 10.

    1. Re:Wow! by Not+The+Real+Me · · Score: -1, Troll

      The BSD people obviously have no sense of humor. That's what happens when you spend all your time in your mommy's basement playing Quake, and D & D.

  2. Re:Well this means... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    So you're preferred vendors are the ones that steal GPL code and don't relase the sources? Except when they get caught red handed?

  3. linux is free... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    if your time is worthless

    I certainly hope that users would never have to do the usual "lets dedicate a couple of solid weekends to discovering how to do some simple task" that is required in linux usually. First read through countless forums, search Google's depths and try to actually find relatively updated documents and read through the entire things. Then next weekend you can start playing around. Unfortunately the task you want is NOT in any way alone and depends upon other things being set correctly. Frequent posters fail to mention important things like where the actual config file is (usually you have old dead files that were foolishly left in) and you must once again just "know." (Documentation and consistent layout is a Bad Thing (TM))

    After another weekend of frustration where you haven't even gotten to the part of your initial task you can hope to spend another week (you have time off from work) grepping through all the files in /etc hoping to find what you are looking for. Why get documentation when you can just require everyone to reverse engineer the whole system requiring you to know EVERY SINGLE DETAIL OF EVERY NUANCE.

    Once you finally perform your task (probably just setting up a web browser that actually runs for non-root) you are too tired to really care about your original goal. YAY!

  4. Re:does it still function as an AP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Better yet, what's the point? Has this guy ever had a gf or got laid? What's the infatuation of runnign linux on everything? Can I get my toaster or ceiling fan to run linux too, then it would be the "toaster to rule the world".