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OpenWrt

Monday 9th August 2010

Quiz question: which Linux distribution's login banner includes a cocktail recipe?

You've guessed it: it's OpenWrt:

 
root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/banner 
_______                     ________        __ 
|       |.-----.-----.-----.|  |  |  |.----.|  |_ 
|   -   ||  _  |  -__|     ||  |  |  ||   _||   _| 
|_______||   __|_____|__|__||________||__|  |____| 
|__| W I R E L E S S   F R E E D O M 
Backfire (10.03, r20728) -------------------------- 
* 1/3 shot Kahlua    In a shot glass, layer Kahlua 
* 1/3 shot Bailey's  on the bottom, then Bailey's, 
* 1/3 shot Vodka     then Vodka. 
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I followed the instructions here, did the scary flashing thing, and now have a WRT54GL v1.1 running OpenWrt 10.03.

It's not very big:

 
root@OpenWrt:~# df -h 
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on 
/dev/root                 1.9M      1.9M         0 100% /rom 
tmpfs                     6.6M     52.0K      6.5M   1% /tmp 
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev 
/dev/mtdblock3            1.0M    216.0K    808.0K  21% /overlay 
mini_fo:/overlay          1.9M      1.9M         0 100% / 

 
root@OpenWrt:~# free 
total         used         free       shared      buffers 
Mem:        13416        12148         1268            0         1312 
Swap:            0            0            0 
Total:        13416        12148         1268 

 
root@OpenWrt:~# uname -a 
Linux OpenWrt 2.6.32.10 #20 Tue Apr 6 15:53:48 CEST 2010 mips GNU/Linux 

The web interface is relatively easy to use, and you can also log in over ssh and configure it by editing configuration files.