I was amazed to find out that Netgear is now selling an open source router. Really! They actually call it that. I'm very impressed that a hardware company is opening up the hood for hobbyists and developers and letting them do cool things with it. They've included an Open Source Development guide which (quoting the guide itself):

...provides information including the hardware memory spec, the software modules, the console interface for code debugging and development, guide for building the source code, the example program, and the device recovery procedure. For further info please contact Netgear customer support.

I think that this can only be attributed to the hard work of the OpenWRT folks. But, it is still exciting to see a major corporation saying "make something cooler" with their product.


posted Jul 15, 2007 | permanent link