&quot;Unfortunately...&quot;<p>Can you be more specific?  Irrespective of this project and its goals, I agree with the installation approach.<p>What is the impassable step?<p>Purchasing a RPi?<p>Using a program to copy an image to an SD Card?  What if SD Cards with the image pre-installed were also available?<p>The RPi stays on unless someone unplugs it, so I trust that no one is going to claim &quot;always on&quot; is an issue.  It does not even have a reset button like most consumer routers.<p>Setting up consumer routers involves plugging into a local network so I cannot imagine that is an issue either.<p>So what is it?<p>This image is a whopping 1GB and there is no link to source code.  Without source code this is all but worthless.  However I agree 100% with the distribution and installation method.<p>All computers, including routers, should boot from removable media.  And users should get to choose what OS they run. Control.  Who has it?  Users have very little and what they have is continually being eroded.<p>If users want more control over what internet companies are allowed to do, then this is the way forward.<p>What do others think?