Routers are tiny computers. They come with their own RAM, CPU, storage, and a barebones operating system glued together by whatever software the manufacturer ships. The problem is that most of that ...

OpenWrt is a GNU/Linux distribution for embedded devices that has been designed to work on routers and a number of other platforms. It's been under development for a long time and now the final ...

Imagine turning a simple, affordable Raspberry Pi mini PC into a powerful 4G LTE router that can spread high-speed internet to your other projects and devices. By leveraging OpenWRT, an open-source ...

OpenWrt, a highly-extensible GNU/Linux distribution for embedded devices, built from the ground up to be a full-featured, easily modifiable operating system for routers, has advanced to version 14.07 ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Continuing its tradition of releases named after cocktails, the OpenWrt project released the latest version of its firmware for home routers and other devices, "Barrier Breaker" (14.07), on October 2.

Those who want to install alternative firmware on their router generally pick OpenWrt, DD-WRT, or Tomato, but Eric Bishop found their web interfaces to be too focused on power users. So he started ...

The open-source router firmware OpenWrt has been released in new versions that close several security vulnerabilities. Some of these can be exploited from the network and are partly in services that ...