After years of having people load custom Linux-based firmwares onto their routers, Linksys decided to just go ahead and make a router with Linux on there from the start. Computer Science grad students are all awkwardly high fiving each other.
The guts of the machine are a 400MHz processor, 32MB RAM, and 8MB flash memory, plus two external antennas for wider coverage. You can also stream media from USB drives through the USB port to UPnP devices. It’s 802.11n compliant, of course, and will retail for $US120.
Main point? That it’s Linux-based, so people can shove apps on there like BitTorrent downloaders and whatever else you can find that runs on Linux. [Linksys]
Reuben
June 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM
I can’t find anywhere yet to buy this yet in Australia, I really want to get one! My old netgears on the way out, and my second one is the WRT54GL which has been rock solid since i put DD-WRT on it!
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