Google Rolls Out OnHub Router, Powered By Gentoo Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Rolls Out OnHub Router, Powered By Gentoo Linux

For those that didn't hear yet, Google announced another hardware product today -- a WiFi router called the OnHub...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-OnHub-Router

[bakgwailo]

No AC? Disappointing.

[egon2003]

No AC? Disappointing.

On googles product page is says

5 GHz wireless

802.11a/n/ac 3x3 with smart antenna

[Ericg]

Interesting to me that Google seems to prefer Gentoo over Arch, or Ubuntu for a lot of their products (ChromeOS is Gentoo as well). I wonder if its for the rolling release, or if there's a different reason.

[andre30correia]

Interesting to me that Google seems to prefer Gentoo over Arch, or Ubuntu for a lot of their products (ChromeOS is Gentoo as well). I wonder if its for the rolling release, or if there's a different reason.

gentoo is american and stable

[magika]

Interesting to me that Google seems to prefer Gentoo over Arch, or Ubuntu for a lot of their products (ChromeOS is Gentoo as well). I wonder if its for the rolling release, or if there's a different reason.

Have we ever had any serious device with binary package based distribution? It is too unflexible.
And using Ubuntu for such purposes is just a joke.

[Ericg]

Have we ever had any serious device with binary package based distribution? It is too unflexible.
And using Ubuntu for such purposes is just a joke.

I only brought up Ubuntu because Google made their own internal Ubuntu-based distro

[dh04000]

Why not OpenWRT, which is actually tuned to be a router OS?

[totex71]

Interesting to me that Google seems to prefer Gentoo over Arch, or Ubuntu for a lot of their products (ChromeOS is Gentoo as well). I wonder if its for the rolling release, or if there's a different reason.

With Gentoo you can (and usually do) customize the installation to only work on that hardware only. Makes it more responsive and faster than binary based distrobutions.

[smitty3268]

Interesting to me that Google seems to prefer Gentoo over Arch, or Ubuntu for a lot of their products (ChromeOS is Gentoo as well). I wonder if its for the rolling release, or if there's a different reason.

I think the ChromeOS team helped create this product, so that probably explains it.