[AceJohnny2]

> Can you provide an "enterprise class embedded OS" to device manufacturers and address post-deployment updates? Can you provide infrastructure device manufacturers can use to manage post-deployment updates themselves?

Partly to your point, Buffalo was using DD-WRT for their wireless routers [1]. I have two of them at home, updated to the latest LEDE/OpenWRT. They're mostly fine [2].

Buffalo's support was not great, lagging far behind the latest DD-WRT when they were still providing those updates. As a power-user, I didn't mind since I could switch, but it was not a great showing for vanilla consumer.

Sadly, Buffalo has stopped making them, I suppose the business model didn't survive such a low-margin segment. I definitely appreciate the continued open-source support though!

[1] such as https://www.buffalotech.com/products/airstation-highpower-n3...

[2] I've had to reboot the main one to regain network connectivity a couple times, and it currently loses Wifi settings on power loss. Not great, but not enough to make me switch away yet.

[m463]

I think there are other brands that allow openwrt, such as the linksys wrt ac series:

https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt_ac_series

Their support for the first models in the beginning was a little spotty, but I think they are great systems now