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Hello, you probably all know what OpenWRT is[br]

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nbd's one of the main developers (Felix Fietkau)

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He's here to tell you about the last 10 years of OpenWRT

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Felix: Yes, thank you.[br]<i>applause</i>

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The OpenWRT project was started a bit over 10 years ago

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I'd like to take this opportunity to reflect back on

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where the whole project came from

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and how much it has changed and evolved over time,

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based on the progress we have made

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So first I'd like to tell you a bit about what happened in the early days

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As many of you know and as the name OpenWRT[br]still implies

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it started out pretty much as a firmware for the old WRT54G

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The effort to create this firmware started when

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basically it was discovered that this device, using a Broadcom chip,

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was using Linux as its base operating system

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initially it was a pretty huge GPL violation

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because Linksys didn't release [br]any source code for the device

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but that of course didn't stop interested people from trying to hack it by looking into the inner workings of the firmware

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discovering the limitations of it,

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then starting to create a replacement for that firmware

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and this was done in the early days based on the uclibc buildroot

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which was a pretty small and flexible [br]environment to quickly bring up code [br]for a new target

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and uclibc had the advantage of being much smaller than glibc which I think the initial device used

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it started out by basically taking the Linksys GPL tarball once it was released

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which only happened because many people, many of were members of the Linux kernel community

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actively fought for the source code being released

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and there was a lot of GPL compliance engineering involved in that effort as well