alt Hacker NewsOpenWrt has a generic x86 PC build that can also be used to turn basically any random PC into a router, complete with an operating system actually designed and developed for that purpose.
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adolph • today at 3:47 PM
OpenWRT is great if it fits your use case. If one has reason to stray from the happy path a disadvantage is that the OpenWRT uses a single binary like Busybox and doesn't use glibc. This is great for embedded/low power machines like the OG WRT54G, but not as optimal for when you have an entire random PC. I don't recall the exact things I was looking for but I moved on to pfSense and didn't look back.
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anthk • today at 5:04 PM
Alpine Linux too.
And of course probably 1000x the power usage compared to the average off the shelf router that runs off a borderline microcontroller.