James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> writes: > Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev <at> laposte.net> writes: > > >> > > For the distribution, I'd recommend Alpine: >> > > http://www.alpinelinux.org/about > >> Sorry, I can't. I don't have them anymore while I'm sure they are still >> used in production. It's something easy to do, though. The scripts >> themselves are distribution agnostic. E.g. my ipfilter service only >> used $IPTABLES. The only thing to update are the service files for >> openrc, systemd, upstart, whatever. > > I've gone this route before. Sooner or later, I need something else > and then adding/customizing it is often very arduous.... Still Alpine is > interesting. Building a minimize Gentoo or embedded Gentoo is not > difficult either. Musl will be in the final mix, regardless of which > direction I go. Thanks for providing additional information for me to > ponder before choosing a new router.
Why not use an HP Microserver? The black-box style embedded stuff doesn't seem to be accessible at all to begin with. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.