Hi,

I've just got a Linksys WRT54GL and want to try replacement o/s on it.

I've had a bit of a google and the main ones seem to be DDWRT, OpenWRT and Tomato.

Anyone care to express a preference or a reason why I ought to use one of these over another?

TIA Steve

I seem to recall DD-WRT development had dried up. It's also not quite as "open" as say OpenWRT - it uses proprietary blobs and all the development was controlled by one guy called Brainslayer.

OpenWRT is one of the most popular open source replacement firmwares, I think - but I haven't got much experience/knowledge of Tomato. OpenWRT was originally entirely command-line driven, but there have been GUI addons in recent years. I think I'm running the X-WRT GUI on my GL, but I suspect there are more options since that was first released.

The main drawback of the GL I find is that it doesn't have enough flash memory to hold more of the software I'd like to play with ...

Peter.