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Hacking Samsung 4510-Based APs
zoobab writes "Some belgian linux hackers met this week-end to hack some wireless access points based on the samsung4510 chip. They have succeeded in compiling and booting a uClinux kernel on a Dlink 614ap+, which is equipped with the infamous acx100 wireless chipset. There's still some work to do, but if you want to help, open your 22mbps AP and try to built your own JTAG adaptator to get access to the flash..."
Your spelling errors outnumber mine.
Nobody is arguing that Linux is not extensible, nor that it is inferior. Only that the fervor surrounding many efforts is far out of scale with the utility of the effort.
With reference to the XBox, there is the constant irritant of having to look over your shoulder to see if some change has been made that causes all the mods to be for naught. All the sudden, some game won't run, or some generic update crashes the mods. Just buy a PC for PC use and an XBox for gaming.
It seems that many of the stereotypical, antisocial, or at least socially retarded, moms-basement-dwelling unix geeks just fail to accept the rest of the world out there is perfectly happy with M$ et.al.
Yet M$ is driven as much or more by MARKETING as by genuine programming/innovation.
Perhaps a bit of this mindset applied to Open Source's world would help these efforts emerge from "geeky", arcane, and suspect to not only acceptable, but sought out by the common user.
Isn't that what you want? Or is the stigma of social rejection being worn as some sort of perverse robe of martyrdom?
Basically, Twitter, grow up.