[PATCH] pages: add FAQ page

[Bruno Randolf]

Hi,

Taking this from lede-adm to lede-dev where I'm allowed to post...

On 06/05/16 02:33, Alexander Couzens wrote:
>> +== What devices does LEDE targets?
>> +
>> +LEDE mainly targets embedded devices capable of running Linux. 
> I agree.
> 
>> In
>> most cases wireless routers. This has not changed compared to
>> OpenWrt.
> I don't agree.
> 
> "In most cases wireless routers. This has not changed
> compared to OpenWrt". 
> 
> I would like to see LEDE supporting all cases of embedded systems like
> routers, nas, kitchen radios :), [...]. IMHO it's changed it's
> target compared to OpenWrt. But includes OpenWrt's use cases.

I agree that OpenWRT has grown out of being just a distribution for
wireless routers and the LEDE split is a good moment to make that clear.
Also "wireless" more or less has become a standard component of many
embedded devices.

But more importantly: With the introduction of libubox, ubus, procd,
UCI, netifd, etc OpenWRT has become more than a linux distribution, it
has become a *platform*. What I mean with this that there are programs
which depend on these libraries and components, especially ubus, and
therefore can only meaningfully run on a OpenWRT/LEDE system. I have
written several of those (one is https://github.com/br101/pingcheck) and
I think this is a major difference to many linux distributions.

bruno