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Contest For a Better Open-WRT Wireless Router GUI
Reader RoundSparrow sends word of a contest, with big cash prizes, being mounted by a commercial vender of open source Open-WRT routers. You have 10 months to come up with "the most impressive User Interface/Firmware for Ubiquiti's newly released open-source embedded wireless platform, the RouterStation." Entries are required to have open source licensing and will all be released. First prize is $160,000, with four runners-up receiving $10,000. RoundSparrow adds: "Could be built on top of existing X-WRT or LuCI OpenWRT web interfaces. OpenWRT Kamikaze 8.09 was just released. Now is perfect timing for OpenWRT to get some kick-ass interface and usability ideas. I'm not affiliated with the contest vendor."
You guys altered the name to Open-WRT :) Anyway, thanks for spreading the world on this and Kamikaze 8.09 release. the OpenWRT devs work hard.
Sure Tomato is nice - as long as you can still get hardware for it.
Sure OpenWrt may lack documentation or tries to do too much stuff at once, but right now it's the only fucking router distro that makes actual progress besides tuning the ui.
DD-Wrt, Tomato, CoovaAP etc. are all stuck with binary drivers that require an ancient kernel to operate them and more and more devices that are supported by this software are already end of life or will be soon.
The point of the challange this article is to make a user friendly interface for OpenWrt (besides the three projects already working on it). If Tomato satisfies your need - fine, but if you rely an modern hardware you're out of luck. And at some point it makes more sense to spend 25$ for a cheap-ass Draft-N device with gigabit instead of being stuck with ancient Broadcom gear for 60+$ just to install Tomato.