Dear list, I am not entirely sure I am asking the right community for some help, but let's try.
A lot of people (including myself) have a need for *cheap* simple diskless hassle-free networking appliances that might be used as webservers, VPN routers or whatever services that might be offered on a network using a box that has no more than limited CPU power (some ARM or MIPS CPU), some RAM and some Flash file system. There is a lot of those boxes available designed as "embedded linux controllers" and the like, but they often get more expensive than a full-fledged PC which is not the purpose. (At least not for my project.) Therefore I wonder if anyone ever did any work to use Linux on a device such as the popular DSL routers you can get anywhere for about 100 USD. In my view they should have all the hardware you need and they support flashing a new operating software into them. My guess would be they are some sort of ARM or MIPS architecture so this should be doable. Any thoughts or pointers to any projects? I just don't know where to start. Kind regards, Torsten
