I know that PandoraBox is practically OpenWrt with closed source drivers, and with their own servers instead of OpenWrt's, but I have recently found a chinese derivative called X-Wrt (not to be confused with the old X-Wrt, or XWrt-Vortex), which has an active presence on GitHub, and utilizes OpenWrt's official snapshot package servers, in addition to their own.
Can someone educate me about them, especially about their usage/lack of use of closed-source drivers? They seem to be contributing to OpenWrt as well, from the looks of it.
They seem to be supporting devices such as the Xiaomi Mi 3, and doing so very well.
Thank you very much, however I think that you have misunderstood me (also on the threads), so I'll try explaining myself.
This X-Wrt is not the same one that you have linked to it's Wikipedia article, but rather is a brand new derivative, from the chinese community (which is why I do not understand everything there, I do not speak chinese).
The proper link is: x-wrt.com.
I'll post the results of git log soon.
Update: Since I did not clone the repositories, I'm just getting errors that they are not git repositories, and currently I cannot allow myself to clone them, since I am having severe networking issues (none local) that slow down my internet access to ~400KB/s.
But looking at X-Wrt commit base on GitHub, it appears that they are 50 commits ahead, 4 commits behind, OpenWrt.
Based upon that, I'm guessing that they are basically OpenWrt snapshot with a GUI, with their own commits which they are contributing to OpenWrt.
Sorry, real life priorities, so I wasn't home the past few days, and the local DSLAM went under during that time.
ROOter certainly seems interesting, and while it is based upon OpenWrt, I can't seem to find an official GitHub (or alternative) page for it's source code.
It's compatibility matrix seems a bit limited, though.
I'll try doing so on GitHub, however I do not understand chinese, so I hope that someone there understands english well enough to tell me these things.
Does anyone know what's the major diffrence between Openwrt18.06 and X-wrt? Did anyone try their images and knows if they maybe have support for modems or better broadcom drivers?
You can start by reading the point-in-time commit titles, in the post above.
If you want more detail, you can look at those commits on their public git repo, or by adding it as a remote along with that from OpenWrt and doing your own comparisons.
I'm sorry I had disappeared, poor time management skill in combination with extremely busy weeks.
Hopefully I'll be relatively active again within the week.
Would love to get some new informations since openwrt seems to be decreasing performance more and more on devices < 1GHz SoC/CPU since Kernel > 4.14.100