It's because gentoo is designed to be a meta distro. If you're building static images for release, gentoo is the best by far.
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Google Rolls Out OnHub Router, Powered By Gentoo Linux
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Gentoo is international and stable. And flexible because it is a meta-distribution. Also performant for the same reasons. You can trim it down to a bare minimum and compile it for your very hardware. Also have your own kernel config. Also it is quite close to upstream I'd say. And ChromeOS is based on Gentoo as far as I know. Many good reasons to use Gentoo for them. Most end users of their devices will probably never see a CFLAG or USE flag.Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!
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Originally posted by dh04000 View PostWhy not OpenWRT, which is actually tuned to be a router OS?
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So they really want to spy users
For users that don't want to use Google they made Chrome
For users that don't want to use Chrome they made Chromebook and Android
Fror users that don't want to use Chromebook and Android they made this so they cand spy they can spy all devices on the user's private network, no tmatter the device and OS
I would rather pay with money than to pay with my privacy
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According to this it doesn't have ZWave capabilties as stated by phoronix's acticle.
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostInteresting 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.
CrOS kernels have been landing ipq8064 stuff for a while (as has upstream).. wonder how hackable this thing will be? I guess the good news is it won't have an ancient 3.4 android kernel :-P
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostInteresting 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.
for devices where the hardware doesn't change it is easy to just make a one page shell script init (dd-wrt does it with busybox and a couple programs rewritten to be small)
the kernel does the routing/firewall and a good part of wireless
then just add binaries if needed (a server for the settings webpage, for example)
actually, why not dd-wrt
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Originally posted by egon2003 View Post
On googles product page is says
5 GHz wireless 802.11a/n/ac 3x3 with smart antenna
Still, thats a pretty old chipset. qcm announced qca99X4 earlier this year.
mumimo is a really needed tech if you're buying a new router and have multiple devicies simultaneously connecting to it.
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