[nerdtalker]

I'm a huge fan of ALIX and its successor, APU. I've built dozens of ALIX boxes and most have years of uninterrupted uptime running either m0n0 or pfsense. I've never gotten anywhere close to that with any of the Broadcom or Atheros based embedded platforms which are essentially what you get with a consumer router.

People definitely need to be more aware of the x86 BSD based routing platforms like m0n0wall: http://m0n0.ch/wall/ and its fork pfsense: https://www.pfsense.org/

I'm surprised the EFF isn't championing some fork of those platforms, or just those two themselves. Trying to fix the problem by adding yet another platform is just going to cause problems. I'm a huge fan of the EFF but it seems to be championing rather strange initiatives lately like the open WiFi and now this.