[s0ss]

DD-WRT hasnt had a stable release in 11 years.

Tomato hasn't had a stable release in 9 years.

OPEN-WRT is a fork of DD-WRT. Lede was a fork of OPEN-WRT, but has remerged with OPEN-WRT. OPEN-WRT is the best firmware for home routers/access points in my opinion.

[swinglock]

OpenWrt is not a DD-WRT fork.

[s0ss]

Well I'll be damned -- It's a fork of WRT54G.

[hackbinary]

dd-wrt had a better web interface in the early days, and they took copies the OpenWrt kernel in 2005.

It used to be that dd-wrt was less open than openwrt, but worked better. I think now, though, openwrt has surpassed dd-wrt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT

[tw04]

dd-wrt is willing to include closed binaries from router MFGs so they tend to support a larger list of hardware than OpenWRT and on certain models have far better performance. OpenWRT has a massive community supporting it so, in general I'd say they're progressing faster/adding more features.

If you have the luxury of buying new hardware, I would go the OpenWRT route but just make sure you read EVERYTHING on the hardware support page before pulling the trigger. If you're trying to convert an existing router, definitely do research on both, there are advantages to each. Personally if I had a router supported fully by both, I'd go OpenWRT at this point.

[gregoryl]

FYI, tomato has a still kicking fork:

https://exotic.se/freshtomato/

[paulcarroty]

I wanted to test DD-WRT couple of months ago, but figured out they still use kernel v3.2 for my and couple of another devices (TL&Netgear).

[pmlnr]

Dd-wrt was still a lot more stable every single time onva wrt-1900ac.

[Forbo]

I've not had issues on my 1900AC running OpenWRT. The only problem I had was locking myself out when I forgot the credentials....