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High-Security, Open-Source Router is a Hit on Indiegogo (Video)
The device is called the Turris Omnia, and its Indiegogo page says it's a "hi-performance & open-source router." Their fundraising goal is $100,000. So far, 1,191 backers have pledged $248,446 (as of the moment this was typed), with 49 days left to go. They've shipped 2,000 pieces so far but, says interviewee Ondej Filip, "95% of them are in the Czech Republic."
This is not only an open-source project, but non-profit as well. A big motive for it is heightened security, as the interview (and transcript) make clear. It's also apparent that the hardware here is overkill for a router; it can run a complete Linux distro, no problem, so it can function as a server, not just as a router. Interested? You might want to put a reservation in soon. This isn't the cheapest router (or even server) out there, but a lot of people obviously think a Turris Omnia, with its crypto security, automatic updates, and server functions would be nice to have.
This is not only an open-source project, but non-profit as well. A big motive for it is heightened security, as the interview (and transcript) make clear. It's also apparent that the hardware here is overkill for a router; it can run a complete Linux distro, no problem, so it can function as a server, not just as a router. Interested? You might want to put a reservation in soon. This isn't the cheapest router (or even server) out there, but a lot of people obviously think a Turris Omnia, with its crypto security, automatic updates, and server functions would be nice to have.
Is this router based on Linux, or one of the BSDs?
OpenWRT based per the project's site, which should answer a number of your question, albeit not all of them. I'm curious for more details as well.
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The supplier is CZ.NIC, a non-profit organization that runs the .CZ top level domain of the Czech Republic.
This is their second Turris, and they probably will be around for day or two.
davecb@spamcop.net
It runs OpenWRT which supports OpenVPN, USB and bittorrent.
Aaron Z
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Like this criteria:
Project creation is currently available to individuals in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg who meet the requirements below.
No Czech Republic listed there.
Err... I just ran HTOP a minute ago to see what was spiking a CPU core. I snapped a screen shot with Shutter just to make a record of it. I stored it on an ext4 formatted disk drive. I used inxi -Fxz to check some specs a little while before that. Slurm is giving me a nice display of my network activity. Leafpad is open with my notes. Terminator stands idle awaiting my commend.
Nope, you're right, in practice that doesn't happen. None of that open source code is ever maintained and nobody ever puts any work into helping the community. Those old hacked wifi drivers that didn't initially work? Those were written by underpants gnomes or magic - I don't know which. They keep updating those realtek drivers to work with the newer versions and that hardware is still useful. Hell, I just clone git and use a little make magic and I'm good to go. But no, you're right! It never, ever, happens.
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