[GRLUG] ELS

[Josh]

I noticed once I sent the message, I should have said Openwrt is a linux
like system but it is not the same linux.  It does carry a better
networking stack and I like the way it loads a filesystem image, but as for
running a server you will end up limited quickly due to the
driver libraries are different, and some of the lib are just not there or
written differently.  I seem to run into the same t hing with android,
 they all say its linux  but its not quite the same.

The thing I find most important and unique to linux is the ability to
compile and create a new system from scratch using only onboard tools.  I
have managed to compile stuff on android but have yet to get a native thing
out of openwrt also I have not really tried hard.  So i just find it odd to
call these embedded systems linux.

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 28, 2012 12:34 AM, "Josh" <leapole at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Openwrt is not a linux system and is missing a lot of important items
> for running a server.
>
> Huh?  It's very much Linux, and has samba, apache, et al packaged and
> ready.  Beyond that, OpenWRT ships a better tuned network stack for servers
> than most distributions.  They were, for instance, the first Linux
> distribution to ship the CODEL anti-bufferbloat code.
>
> --tim
>
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