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Router software requires updating to stay secure, this comparison provides an overview of third party options.

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• References

| Project | Parent project | Software license | Latest release | Alexa rank | About |

|---|---|---|---|---|---|

| OpenWrt | Linux | GPL , etc. | 2025-02-06 [ 1 ] | 17,042 [ 2 ] | |

| Commotion Wireless | OpenWrt | | 2014-10-13 [ 3 ] | 422,643 [ 4 ] | Abandoned |

| DD-WRT | Alchemy [ 5 ] | | 2019-11-09 [ 6 ] | 27,104 [ 7 ] | |

| LEDE | OpenWrt | GPL , etc. | — | 72,901 [ 8 ] | Merged with OpenWrt |

| RutOS | OpenWrt | GPL , etc. | 2025-03-25 [ 9 ] | 499,954 [ 10 ] | Operating System for Teltonika networking products |

| LibreCMC | OpenWrt | | 2024-12-26 [ 11 ] | 2,099,9734 [ 12 ] | |

| Roofnet | OpenWrt | — | — | — | Abandoned |

| DebWRT | OpenWrt , Debian | | 2017-01-02 [ 13 ] | 3,585,093 [ 14 ] | Discontinued |

| HyperWRT | Linux | GPL | 2005-02-07 | — | Abandoned |

| Tomato | HyperWRT | | 2025-02-27 [ 15 ] | 360,330 [ 16 ] | |

| Oleg | ASUS Original | GPL | 2008-03-30 | — | http://oleg.wl500g.info/ |

| Project | QoS | Guest AP | VPN client | VPN server | tor | adblock by domain/ip | Mesh | Package manager |

|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

| OpenWrt | | | | | | | | Opkg (3500) |

| DebWRT | | | | | | | | Dpkg (23168?) |

| FreshTomato | | | | | | | | - |

| Project | Total | x86 | ARM | MIPS |

|---|---|---|---|---|

| OpenWrt | 1875+ [ 17 ] | | | |

| DD-WRT | many [ 18 ] | | | |

| libreCMC | 11 [ 19 ] | | | |

| Project | Parent project | Software license | Latest release | Alexa rank | About |

|---|---|---|---|---|---|

| Zeroshell | Linux | | 2021-01-16 [ 20 ] | 466,964 [ 21 ] | Abandoned [ 20 ] |

| m0n0wall | FreeBSD | | 2014-01-15 [ 22 ] | 439,509 [ 23 ] | Abandoned [ 22 ] |

| OPNsense | FreeBSD | Simplified BSD / FreeBSD License | 2025-03-11 [ 24 ] | 152,329 [ 25 ] | |

| pfsense | FreeBSD 14.0 CURRENT | ALv2 | 2023-12-07 [ 26 ] | 26,342 [ 27 ] | |

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cite-note-11. "OpenWrt website". www.openwrt.org/.

cite-note-22. openwrt.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa

cite-note-33. "Download Commotion Router". www.commotionwireless.net.

cite-note-44. commotionwireless.net Archived 2018-12-21 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa

cite-note-55. "What is DD-WRT - DD-WRT Wiki". 2024-08-09. Archived from the original on 2024-08-09. Retrieved 2025-03-14.

cite-note-66. "DD-WRT » Other Downloads". dd-wrt.com.

cite-note-77. dd-wrt.com Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa

cite-note-88. lede-project.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa

cite-note-99. "Teltonika Networks - LTE Routers, Gateways & Modems for IoT". teltonika-networks.com. Retrieved 2025-03-14.

cite-note-1010. teltonika-networks.com Archived 2020-03-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa

cite-note-1111. "libreCMC : The libre Embedded GNU/Linux[-libre] distro". librecmc.org. Retrieved 2025-03-14.

cite-note-1212. librecmc.org at Alexa

cite-note-1313. "debwrt rootfs download".

cite-note-1414. debwrt.net Archived 2019-07-13 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa

cite-note-1515. "Index of /downloads/". freshtomato.org. Retrieved 2025-03-14.

cite-note-1616. polarcloud.com Archived 2018-12-07 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa

cite-note-1717. "[OpenWrt Wiki] Table of Hardware". openwrt.org. Retrieved 2025-03-14.

cite-note-1818. "Supported Devices - DD-WRT Wiki". wiki.dd-wrt.com.

cite-note-1919. citereflibrecmclibreCMC. "libreCMC/libreCMC". gogs.librecmc.org.

cite-note-0-2020. citerefdistrowatchDistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Zeroshell". distrowatch.com. Archived from the original on 2025-01-25. Retrieved 2025-03-14.

cite-note-2121. zeroshell.org Archived 2019-06-24 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa

cite-note-1-2222. "m0n0wall - End of the m0n0wall project". m0n0.ch. Archived from the original on 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2025-03-14.

cite-note-2323. m0n0.ch Archived 2019-06-26 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa

cite-note-2424. "25.1 "Ultimate Unicorn" Series — OPNsense documentation". docs.opnsense.org. Retrieved 2025-03-14.

cite-note-2525. opnsense.org Archived 2018-04-17 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa

cite-note-2626. "Versions of pfSense software and FreeBSD | pfSense Documentation". docs.netgate.com. Retrieved 2025-03-14.

cite-note-2727. pfsense.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa