Re:Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points
by shmerl on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @12:50PM
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I think their main developer (Brainslayer) publishes his builds periodically. So those aren't random people. But in general it's not really a fully open development project. I.e. it's not governed by any community.
OpenWRT is better in this sense, but even there some people split into recent LEDE project: https://www.lede-project.org
Regarding bricking. Linksys WRT1900ACS is designed with that in mind. It has two partitions, and you always flash updates to another one, so if something goes wrong, you can easily switch to the other partition which will hold previous installation, using special on / off sequence. It's a neat idea, and more routers should follow it.
OpenWRT is better in this sense, but even there some people split into recent LEDE project: https://www.lede-project.org
Regarding bricking. Linksys WRT1900ACS is designed with that in mind. It has two partitions, and you always flash updates to another one, so if something goes wrong, you can easily switch to the other partition which will hold previous installation, using special on / off sequence. It's a neat idea, and more routers should follow it.