On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:43:07PM +0200, Yuval Hager wrote: > the 'L' in the model name is for Linux. > The latest (v8 I believe it is called) is running vxWorks.
What happened is the original version ran Linux. Linksys found that they could use half the RAM, get better performance and prevent people from "hacking" them by replacing a Linux system customized to be a router with an application specific router program in vxWorks. This cut the price significantly and increased profits while cutting costs and retail price. People who buy the router to use "out of the box" where happy. People who bought them to run their own versions of Linux stopped buying them and overall sales went down. The "L" version was their response, they sell both the current vxWorks unit for people that don't care what they run and the "L" version with the extra RAM and Linux firmware to those that do. The "L" version is the one to buy if you want to install your own version of Linux on it. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
