Wow, way to totally ignore my comment.

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I actually own about four WRT54Gs now. I just installed DD-WRT on a WRT54G2v1 this evening... I have a Dlink DIR-655 as well, it's not supported by anything but there's a GPL download so I have downloaded it to see if I can get DD-WRT or better yet Tomato running on it. It's only got 4MB flash but it has GigE and three external antennae (as well as a USB port) so I think it's worth the effort anyway.

Repeating yourself doesn't make your statement true. I have an STK500 and an STK600 in the closet next to me, and a number of AVR devices and a couple Arduinos. I can still see that at some point, some projects will run off the end of Arduino and right onto the beginning of R-Pi.

It is like an Arduino in certain significant ways (low price, GPIO) which make it suitable for many tasks for which people would like to use Arduno but they can't because it doesn't have enough horsepower. In that way, it is very like Arduino, but better. One of the best things about Arduino is standardized libraries.

On the other hand, it doesn't have near as much connectivity as an Arduino. I suspect that a lot of people using Arduino for their projects and running out of processing power will turn their Arduino into an interface device and switch to doing their processing on the R-Pi. At these prices it makes complete sense... for prototyping, or just banging out a quick tool. Sometimes saving the time is worth the money.

How full-featured is that Arduino? Last I checked a decent unit was more like $17 which is a lot closer to $25.

It will run Debian almost immediately. Betcha a dollar.

It's very near the same price and has vastly more RAM and processing power, not to mention I/O.

Vehement agreemsg. The RAM is really the compelling part. I'd like to know if I will need a scan converter or if it will do composite out on the VGA port, though. I actually need composite for my application.

'An army marches on its stomach.'

'C'est la soupe qui fait le soldat.'

Nothing, absolutely nothing, matters more at winning wars than logistics. The lethal fighting force is but the edge of a vast engineering and distribution network. Or, if it is not the edge of such a network, it is soon a defeated lethal fighting force.

Spend some of the money we'll save landscaping Los Angeles to store water instead of all of it running straight into the ocean, cutting its water import needs in half. Done and done.

Are there cases where a firmware update for a shipping product replaced Linux with another operating system? I'm aware of plenty of Linksys hardware where a later revision of the "same" hardware has a totally different core and often different WiFi hardware as well, but none where it has a wholly different kernel, except maybe a slightly later one which is still Linux.