On Wednesday, January 9, 2019 4:33:25 AM EST Terry Barnaby wrote:
1. Fedora is big and bloated for small/low powered hardware that can
be
used for this task and low energy usage is important in my opinion for
24/7 systems.
I've successfully run Fedora (certainly not the images published, but still
Fedora) on embedded devices without issue. Additionally, using Fedora doesn't
inherently make your system use more energy than it otherwise would.
2. Fedora is complex for such a task.
Not really. It's more complex, because of your point 3, but not by a lot. It
also has a lot of flexibility in comparison to things like OpenWRT.
3. Fedora hasn't a simple web interface to manage the particular
functionality that a simple router like device needs.
Sure.
4. Fedora's aggressive new "feature" release cycle is
painful for such
low level infrastructure.
Nope. Fedora has releases about every 6 months. This means your systems will
just about always have the latest and greatest stable code.
5. Other Linux systems have been designed to easily install on small
router like hardware easily and be easily used. As long as it is
OpenSource and Linux most of someone's knowledge of Fedora will be
applicable.
Fedora, as with many other GNU/Linux systems, is a general purpose operating
system. As I said earlier, you can certainly install it on embedded devices
such as routers. I'd be careful doing so, however, and look into the
peripherals and their support in mainline before doing so. It is possible that
you'll have to run Fedora from a custom kernel.
Little of ones knowledge of Fedora is really relevant to Linux.
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