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Linksys Adds Linux WRT54G Model Back
Glenn Fleishman writes "Last month, Slashdot and others wrote about how the Linksys WRT54G, a popular embedded Linux-based Wi-Fi gateway, had switched to VxWorks's OS for its v5 release. Because the WRT54G has become the standard as a cheap commodity device for building your own platform (like Sveasoft, Fon, and many others), this seemed like a big blow to hackers and developers. If you could still manage to flash the device--not sure if that was possible--it had half the RAM and flash of the v4 model. It turns out Linksys wasn't killing the Linux model. They've released it as the WRT54GL with v4.30.0(US) firmware and will sell it under that name for about $70 retail. It's already in stock and the new firmware is on their GPL software download page. Linux sales represent a few percentage points of their overall volume, based on the Linksys product director's remarks. The lesser quantity of RAM puts money back in their pockets on the mainstream model."
Do you have a contract with someone requiring you to buy these devices no matter what the cost is? No? Well, you're not being screwed then. Linksys decided to change their prices and features, presumably in response to market pressures. That's thier right. If you don't like it, don't buy any more from them; that's your right. Don't bitch that you're being screwed, or even worse, try and include others in your rant and declare that we all got screwed - that's just idiotic.
And as you tread the halls of sanity, You feel so glad to be, Unable to go beyond. I have a message, From another time..
People: use DD-WRT it rocks
Other People: yeah, what he said
Me: Hmmm, ok.
Me: *reads manual before installing*
Me: *installs*
Me: *has problems with slow wireless*
Me: *adjusts a few settings*
Router: BRRRRRRRICK!
Me: Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
Me: *attempts de-bricking methods linked to by the manual*
Router: Daisy, Daisy...
Me: I think I'll go warn Slashdot via sarcasm
You: Blah blah you should have first researched a little better blah do not blame the people here for your dead box
Me: Fuck you. Fuck you right in the ear. I should not have to circumnavigate the sum knowledge of the internet like so much Ferdinand Magellan crossed with Neo before flashing a goddamn router. Fuck you.