Why OpenWrt is now so big, low mem devices "not anymore usable"

[kofec]

you can still use it as Access Point and switch. My DIR-300 16MB/4MB. I just compile (kernel 4.14) and it is working fine:

Build ath25 fail - clean build [solved]

For DIR-300 16MB/4MB flash. Will be used as switch and AP - no iptables, LUCI etc, only ssh access. first I flash: on tftp I put: ls -al /var/lib/tftpboot/ total 2888 drwxr-xr-x 2 root nogroup 4096 Aug 30 12:43 . drwxr-xr-x 81 root root 4096 Aug 30 11:51 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1245184 Aug 30 12:42 openwrt-ath25-generic-kernel.lzma -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1703936 Aug 30 12:43 openwrt-ath25-generic-squashfs-rootfs.bin on DIR-300 console execute(putty) : == Executing boot …