I don't have any monies but that does not mean one can dream...

A few months ago, Netgear's latest 802.11n sibling hit the shelves. Sporting Atheros 802.11n dual-band wireless, dual radio, Gigabit Ethernet, a USB 2.0 port (for storage, not for printers) and - last but not least - an OpenWrt-based OS, this stylish device has everything a SOHO enthusiast would want. If that doesn't make you run to the store, you can always check this excellent Small Net Builder review that shows the WNDR3700 holds its own quite well.

Red alert indeed! Kamikaze 8.09 hit the shelves on March 4th and comes with a quite impressive changelog. The most intriguing addition to this already feature-packed embedded Linux distribution is the LuCi interface.

I have to admit I have never been more baffled by an OSS product.

This weekend FOSDEM '08, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting, took place in Brussels. It started with the Beer event on friday evening - which I did not attend, I'm not much of a beer fan :-P. Sunday's programme looked like the most interesting to me, with a lineup of talks about Drupal, OpenWrt, suspend, and interaction between the kernel, HAL, udev and networkmanager.

Joy oh joy. Remember the good ole days when OpenWrt accused Sveasoft of violating the GPL, only to be accused by Sveasoft themselves in return to do something similar? Welcome to the déjà vu then.

It seems DD-WRT is doing the same thing.

Okay. You guys know how fond I am of tinkering and breaking things :-). Well, today, I discovered once again how fabulous OpenWrt is. Those familiar with Linux will know cross-compiling can be a pain. Routers and other embedded devices often run on non-x86 architectures (my router, an Asus WL-500G Deluxe, is a MIPS-based device), which means you have to set up some sort of cross compilation environment, and that takes time. Well, with OpenWRT, there's no need to go through all of that.