Router software requires updating to stay secure, this comparison provides an overview of third party options.
Embedded
General
| Project | Parent project | Software license | Latest release | Alexa rank | About |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenWrt | Linux | GPL, etc. | 2023-05-01 | 17,042 | |
| Commotion Wireless | OpenWrt | 2014-10-13 | 422,643 | ||
| DD-WRT | OpenWrt | 2019-11-09 | 27,104 | ||
| LEDE | OpenWrt | GPL, etc. | N/A | 72,901 | Merged with OpenWrt |
| RutOS | OpenWrt | GPL, etc. | 2020-01-15 | 499,954 | Operating System for Teltonika networking products |
| LibreCMC | OpenWrt | 2018-04-02 | 2,099,9734 | ||
| Roofnet | OpenWrt | N/A | N/A | N/A | Abandoned |
| DebWRT | OpenWrt, Debian | 2017-01-02 | 3,585,093 | ||
| HyperWRT | Linux | GPL | 2005-02-07 | N/A | Abandoned |
| Tomato | HyperWRT | 2021-03-17 | 360,330 | ||
| Oleg | ASUS Original | GPL | 2008-03-30 | N/A | http://oleg.wl500g.info/ |
Features
| Project | QoS | Guest AP | VPN client | VPN server | tor | addblock by domain/ip | Mesh | Package manager |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenWrt | Opkg (3500) | |||||||
| DebWRT | Dpkg (23168?) |
Devices
| Project | Total | x86 | ARM | MIPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenWrt | 499 | x | x | x |
| DD-WRT | many | x | x | |
| libreCMC | 11 |
Other
| Project | Parent project | Software license | Latest release | Alexa rank | About |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zeroshell | Linux | 2018-01-02 | 466,964 | for SBCs raspberry / orange pi | |
| m0n0wall | FreeBSD | 2014-01-15 | 439,509 | Abandoned | |
| OPNsense | FreeBSD | Simplified BSD / FreeBSD License | 2024-01-30 | 152,329 | |
| pfsense | FreeBSD 14.0 CURRENT | ALv2 | 2023-11-16 | 26,342 |
See also
- Debian
- FreeBSD
- Kali Linux
- Linux kernel
- List of free and open-source software packages
- List of router and firewall distributions
- List of router firmware projects
- OpenBSD
- NetBSD
- Software
- Tails
References
- "OpenWrt website". www.openwrt.org/.
- openwrt.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- "Download Commotion Router". www.commotionwireless.net.
- commotionwireless.net Archived 2018-12-21 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- "DD-WRT » Other Downloads". dd-wrt.com.
- dd-wrt.com Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- lede-project.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- "RutOS". wiki.teltonika-networks.com.
- teltonika-networks.com Archived 2020-03-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- project, RISCi_ATOM, Robert Call, The libreCMC. "libreCMC : The libre Embedded GNU/Linux[-libre] distro". librecmc.org.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - librecmc.org at Alexa
- "debwrt rootfs download".
- debwrt.net Archived 2019-07-13 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- "2021-freshtomato.org>downloads>freshtomato-mips>2021". freshtomato.org.
- polarcloud.com Archived 2018-12-07 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- openwrt devices
- "Supported Devices - DD-WRT Wiki". wiki.dd-wrt.com.
- libreCMC. "libreCMC/libreCMC". gogs.librecmc.org.
- "zeroshell download".
- zeroshell.org Archived 2019-06-24 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- m0n0.ch Archived 2019-06-26 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- "24.1 "Savvy Shark" Series — OPNsense documentation". opnsense.org.
- opnsense.org Archived 2018-04-17 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- "Releases — Versions of pfSense and FreeBSD - pfSense Documentation". doc.pfsense.org.
- pfsense.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
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