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OpenWrt Overview
Introduction
- OpenWrt is a very popular project that allows you to build your own Linux based firmware which you can use on embedded devices.
- There are pre-built firmware available for many hardware models.
- Without duplicating existing documentation you can visit the project's website here: https://openwrt.org
OpenWrt with MESHdesk and APdesk
- MESHdesk and APdesk makes use of the standard OpenWrt that is available.
- It simply adds three additional items to it.
- The MESHdesk package.
- The MESHdesk Luci application.
- Some additional files e.g. a custom banner and logo.
- Although we will cover these items later again when we do hands-on compiling of the firmware we also feel that covering it here already in the overview will make things a bit more familiar.