Re:OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released
by zozbot234 on Sunday September 05, 2021 @06:57AM
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> It's interesting how much resources this requires now, though; 128MB RAM is recommended, and 64MB is barely sufficient.
This is a performance point where general purpose Linux distributions ought to be competitive. The Debian project is really dropping the ball by not focusing a lot more on these use cases. Their debian-embedded working group used to lead worthwhile subprojects (known as EmDebian Grip/Crush/Baked) aimed at slimming down minimum requirements on all sorts of special-purpose hardware and even competing with the likes of Alpine and Void, but these have all gone nowhere. Hopefully they'll be picked up again since the mobile-phones use case is raising these same issues, albeit for other reasons.
This is a performance point where general purpose Linux distributions ought to be competitive. The Debian project is really dropping the ball by not focusing a lot more on these use cases. Their debian-embedded working group used to lead worthwhile subprojects (known as EmDebian Grip/Crush/Baked) aimed at slimming down minimum requirements on all sorts of special-purpose hardware and even competing with the likes of Alpine and Void, but these have all gone nowhere. Hopefully they'll be picked up again since the mobile-phones use case is raising these same issues, albeit for other reasons.