Router software requires updating to stay secure, this comparison provides an overview of third party options.
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Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About OpenWrt Linux / Linksys GPL, etc. 2025-02-06 openwrt.org at Alexa Commotion Wireless OpenWrt 2014-10-13 commotionwireless.net at AlexaAbandoned DD-WRT Sveasoft Alchemy 2019-11-09 dd-wrt.com at Alexa LEDE OpenWrt GPL, etc. lede-project.org at Alexa Merged with OpenWrt RutOS OpenWrt GPL, etc. 2025-03-25 teltonika-networks.com at Alexa Operating System for Teltonika networking products LibreCMC OpenWrt 2024-12-26 librecmc.org at Alexa Roofnet OpenWrt Abandoned DebWRT OpenWrt / Debian 2017-01-02 debwrt.net at Alexa Discontinued HyperWRT Linksys GPL 2005-02-07 Abandoned Tomato HyperWRT 2025-02-27 polarcloud.com at Alexa Oleg ASUSTeK GPL 2008-03-30 http://oleg.wl500g.info/
Features Project QoS Guest AP VPN client VPN server tor adblock by domain/ip Mesh Package manager OpenWrt Opkg (3500) DebWRT Dpkg (23168?)FreshTomato -
Devices Project Total x86 ARM MIPS OpenWrt 1875+ DD-WRT many libreCMC 11
Other Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About IPFire Linux GPLv3+ 2025-09-19 N/A Zeroshell Linux 2021-01-16 zeroshell.org at Alexa Abandoned m0n0wall FreeBSD 2014-01-15 m0n0.ch at Alexa Abandoned OPNsense FreeBSD Simplified BSD / FreeBSD License 2025-03-11 opnsense.org at Alexa pfsense FreeBSD 14.0 CURRENT ALv2 2023-12-07 pfsense.org at Alexa
See also Debian FreeBSD Kali Linux Linux kernel List of free and open-source software packages List of router and firewall distributions List of router firmware projects OpenBSD NetBSD Software Tails
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