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| 162 | === [#openwrt OpenWrt] |
| 163 | - [wiki:OpenWrt/building#OpenWrtBSPBranches Venice OpenWrt Wiki Page with Downloads] |
| 164 | - Intended for wireless routers and access points (low flash and memory footprint) |
| 165 | - Recommended for networking users wanting to create a headless router, VPN, basestation, wireless access point and more. Produces by far the smallest storage and memory footprint but users new to Embedded Linux will have a bit of a learning curve |
| 166 | - Fairly up-to-date and/or vanilla kernel support |
| 167 | - Latest wireless drivers (via linux-backports) |
| 168 | - Custom application config and init system (nice for small footprint, but can make adding support for additional packages more work) |
| 169 | - Wide variety of packages (including a fairly nice web-admin) |
| 170 | - Console-based build system (expect 60mins to build BSP for a specific board family) |
| 171 | - Downloadable SDK and Toolchain available to build apps on a development host without building the entire BSP |
| 172 | - easy firmware upgrade (sysupgrade) and factory-default reset mechanism |
| 173 | - Pre-built images available |