Thanks to the mods for closing the old thread and linking to here.
I've tweaked the title and also added in link to the opkg version on the wiki and added a brief summary of the differences between the versions.
For any linux beginners this is very important. Its one of the primary reasons i use WinSCP for editing files on the router as it deals with the translation of that internally. (Notepad++ will also do unix translations). It will make unix/OpenWrt choke on files that have CR/LF in them. I've had to help a few people recently in different threads so i've added it here as a "be aware".