[MLB-WIRELESS] New OpenWRT firmware available.

[Rob Clark]

My translation:

- things are better/easier for developers
- can't see any significant 'user' changes

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au 
> [mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Tim Hogard
> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 8:07 AM
> To: netwiz at crc.id.au
> Cc: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] New OpenWRT firmware available.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > The OpenWRT guys have released a new firmware which is 
> supposed to be 
> > much better than the old ones. It's not referenced off 
> their web site 
> > as yet - but is posted about in the forum.
> > 
> > Direct link is: http://www.openwrt.org/downloads/experimental/
> I'm not sure how much better it is but the CHANGES files is here:
> 
>  OpenWRT CHANGES
>  ---------------
> 
>  Changes between official and experimental
> 
>   *) new buildroot (based on uClib buildroot2)
>      *) makefiles are no longer included but executed instead
>         => easier to create packages
> 
>   *) enhanced configuration system
>      *) busybox fully configurable from menuconfig
>      *) enabled tristate for some packages
>         => < > disabled, <M> compile as .ipk, <*> compile as 
> .ipk and embed
> 
>   *) new kernel (updated to 2.4.29)
> 
>   *) jffs2 root partition support
> 
>   *) lzma compression (kernel and squashfs root partition)
> 
>   *) posix threads library (libpthread) is now embedded in firmware
> 
>   *) newest ebtables support
> 
>   *) better support for Asus WL-500g
>         (kernel modules for usb,scsi,vfat build)
> 
> -tim
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