I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don’t know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It’s a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn’t more popular/widely used.
I only know one company that sells routers with openwrt pre-installed. It’s called Gl-inet.
Make that two, Turris also sells them, though technically it’s a fork of OpenWrt with some stuff on top. I have one myself (though I’m not running the original OS).
Turris looks very good. Thanks.
Make that 3! There’s Sinovoip (aka Banana Pi). https://www.banana-pi.org/en/bananapi-router/.
The BananaPi BPi R3 and here is a very good option with a 4 core CPU, 2GB of RAM Wifi6 and two 2.5G SFP ports besides the 4 ethernet ports. There’s also an upcoming board the BPI-R4 with optional Wifi 7 and 10G SPF.