[wolandpe]

Huhh, all big vendors have made and are still making similiar mistakes on a regular basis, just look up Cisco related CVEs. While I don´t know it for sure yet, as this card is not yet available at my favorit suppliers, this might very well work with Linux. While Mikrotik does not directly support installing Linux on their HW, they don´t lock the HW down. There is support by Openwrt for many different Mikrotik devices. Anyway I wouldn´t replace RouterOS.