craigdoepie
Expert Member
OpenWRT is completely open source with many developers (eg. anyone can contribute) and focused more on customization. The WUI (Web user interface) isn't as nice as that of DD-Wrt but you can install just about anything using the package manager (if you don't know what a package manager is or anything about Linux then you probably shouldn't bother with OpenWRT).
DD-Wrt is closed source with few developers and on the verge of being commercialized but it has a well put together WUI, very wide hardware support and it is very stable. Not that OpenWrt is unstable...
Unless you need special functionality (like load balancing multiple WANs) I'd go with DD-Wrt at this point.
Thats all I need to know, enjoy your day and thanks alot.